Word: blackmailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British novelists, though seldom adventurous in form, are insistently complex in content. In The Seahorse (Atheneum) by Anthony Masters, 24, progressive education in England gets a gruesome going-over. Masters' headmaster participates in creative play with his assistant's wife, the kiddies express themselves by plotting blackmail and even murder, and a member of the staff releases inhibitions by decapitating cats. Masters too often manufactures sensations instead of making sense, but he can summon remarkable talents for projecting character and transmitting an atmosphere of educational gothic...
...response was short but to the point. Moniem El-Khatib, director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iraq said, "the question of Arab refugees in Israel is one of blackmail...
Tonight's films will be Blackmail (1930), Hitchcock's first talkie, and the better-known Psycho (1961). Both films can be viewed in the downstairs auditorium of the Carpenter Center...
With a little judicious blackmail, Potter could bring an end to the terrible waste of electricity in the City of Light
When Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams first saw the profusion of ads in the Democratic Party's glossy, 178-page paean to the 89th Congress entitled Toward an Age of Greatness, his own reaction was that the Republic was headed toward an age of "political blackmail." Rising on the Senate floor to protest the Democrats' $1,000,000 bonanza, Williams - nicknamed "Whispering Willie" because of his barely audible speaking voice - protested...