Word: blackmailing
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...classification for service classification can be viewed as a type of sophisticated blackmail: "The blackmail aspects of the draft were bluntly admitted during the 1959 House Armed Services Committee hearings by Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles G. Finucance who stressed the value of the draft as a threat in encouraging enlistments," writes Lynn...
...Indian members-the will to do the task. Any future system of inspections and guarantees would have to involve many more nations, many more troops, trucks and planes, and a system of sanctions. Even with that, it would depend on a shaky combination of mutual good will and mutual blackmail between both sides in Viet Nam-and would remain a major problem...
...member of the Board, which includes Mrs. Pusey, said she wanted the neighborhood to take over control of the center, but did not feel threatened by the "blackmail situation set up by PBH." The Board did not resolve the confrontation beyond forming a Board-community committee to discuss recruiting young men and women from the neighborhood to work in the center...
...ironic perversion of free speech and due process. At Lowell Hall last Monday, less than ten per cent of the University population, representing only themselves, demanded the so-called "right of collective responsibility." This ex post facto support for the Mallinckrodt demonstrators is a cheap attempt to blackmail the administration and absolve the guilty students...
Caught in a trap, Aspinall backed down. "It amounts to blackmail," he grumbled, as he allowed that if Hayden would withdraw his rider and stick with the Central Arizona Project bill as passed by the Senate, Aspinall's committee would take it up first thing next session. "This is all I ever wanted," responded Hayden with a grin...