Word: blackmailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these two improbable people finally get together is a clear case of Blackmail. Ivy, hankering for more out of life, decides to leave her "family." The lady of the house gets frantic at the prospect of losing her maid, tells her to "call me Doris like my friends," and offers to give her a vacation: "We'll send you anyplace you want to go. Ah ... Africa...
...singled them out as the scapegoats for the disorders, accusing them of conspiring to take over France and turn it into a Communist dictatorship; actually, the disorders ignited with little if any aid from the Communist Party. Cried Communist Party Leader Waldeck Rochet: "The Gaullists won by applying blackmail of fear against the French people...
...failed to indict the lending institutions for taking their "pound of flesh" from the already harassed home buyer. The questionable fees charged for making the loan and the "tribute" the seller must pay in points charged against him when a buyer seeks an FHA loan are tantamount to fiscal blackmail...
...been made. Then, more than a third of the senior class signed a letter regretfully stating that they would not contribute financially to the college as long as the administration continued to refuse students a voice in questions vital to them. It was an extremely effective form of blackmail. Radcliffe, in the red for some time now, has launched a massive fund-raising campaign and is of course counting on foundation support. But foundations pay close attention to statistics of alumni-giving...
...society. Defying Kremlin directives, Rumania has maintained cordial relations with both China and Israel, in Soviet eyes the Middle East aggressor. Recently, Rumania balked at joining fellow Warsaw Pact members in signing the Moscow-Washington nuclear-proliferation draft treaty, arguing that it failed to protect small nations from nuclear blackmail by larger powers...