Word: blackmailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After a century of Pax Britannica and a short period of Pax Americana, the world has entered the phase of Pax Atomica. The only danger is the so-called peace movement in the West, which imperils the balance of power. This can lead to nuclear war or to nuclear blackmail and surrender of the West. Andropov's side will not relinquish its strength...
When she learns that a client is to receive a Nobel Prize for Eine Leerstelle, a book she composed years ago, May decides to make crime--blackmail, to be specific--pay some of the emotional as well as financial dividends she has never received for the work done. More than anything, Quayle, the Nobel Prize winner, stands for too many things. May can no longer stomach. The epitome of tweedy, trendy pseudo-intellectual sleaze, Quayle would be the last to write Eine Leerstelle; it is doubtful whether he could read it--yet he is the perfect success, giving the audience...
Eagleburger had yet to be confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Secretary of State, and Pillsbury threatened to use his influence with conservative Republicans to block the confirmation. The attempted blackmail did not work; Eagleburger approved the statement anyway, and Pillsbury was soon dismissed from the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency by the White House. He went back to Capitol Hill, where he has continued to work against Eagleburger and other Administration moderates, work against Eagleburger and other Administration moderates...
Testimony in the trial of Alexandra V. Gaetan a former Tufts University lecturer accused of raping an Extension School student and forcing her to join him in a plot to blackmail a harvard professor, began Wednesday in Middlesex Superior Court...
...accused Gaetan of raping her and threatening her with further injury if she didn't comply with his blackmail plot...