Word: blackmailer
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...vote for the bill, he cried, was a vote for Dean Acheson. India was trying to blackmail the U.S. If it got the loan, it might share it with Russia. If the U.S. fed the Indians, it would soon have to feed "a train of other countries . . What a snare and a delusion . . ." he bawled, "the height of insanity. And it might be well to remember that India has 180 million sacred cows, and God in heaven alone knows how many sacred monkeys . . . All of these will have first claim on ... food ... we send India...
Attempts to appease Red China are useless, said MacArthur. "They are blind to history's clear lesson . . . Like blackmail, [appeasement] lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative. Why, my soldiers asked of me, surrender military advantages to an enemy in the field...
...Ministry of Food, dickering for a year's Argentine meat supply, refused nine months ago to pay a ?5,000,000-a-year increase asked by Argentina. The Labor government called it "blackmail." The Argentines stopped shipping, and meat is piling up in Argentina...
Poole issued a statement saying the recording was not used as blackmail but that Gregg and Langa volunteered to drop out of the election to stop the recording's circulation...
...prerequisite for solving the Korean question consists in the first place of the United Nations retaining a firm hold and resisting any attempt aimed at imposing conditions for settlement . . . through aggressive action or blackmail...