Word: blackmailing
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...tries to yield to Clive's advice, vows to marry, and at one point visits a hypnotist for 'correction'. But at a crucial time on Clive's estate, Maurice spends the night with a young gamekeeper, Alec Scudder. There follows a period of suspicion between the two; Alec threatens blackmail, and Maurice is afraid to meet again. But a crisis between them turns into a mutual confession of love, and as the novel ends, they are planning to live together. Alec having given up a future in America and Maurice surrendering pretensions to hollow respectability...
SWALLOWS: Girls used for entrapment through sexual blackmail for espionage purposes...
...attempt to hush up the embarrassing affair, the KGB (Soviet secret police) promised the Medvedevs that they would "close the case" and asked for assurances that the brothers would not write about what had happened. Roy Medvedev agreed, on the condition that there be no more "psychiatric blackmail...
...good pro-government man could make not just one but two trips to the ballot box. Opposition voters could be dealt with in several ways. The manual suggested "dividing the opposition by buying off their leaders," and "arresting elements considered as pro-Communist." Then again, one could always "blackmail a person with a scar"-meaning a person with an unsavory background as a smuggler, say, or a habitue of brothels...
...page memo to province chiefs; among other things, it told how to fix ballot cards to enable Thieu partisans to vote twice and how to discourage Thieu opponents by finding "a scar"-Vietnamese parlance for a past crime or anything else that might make a man vulnerable to blackmail...