Word: blackmailing
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...though, is get clipped. Unwary visitors commonly find themselves staring at bills for as much as $80 after a brief bout of drinking. One sucker discovered to his horror that he had been buying champagne for the whole house, including band and B-girls, and finally coughed up $600. Blackmail, extortion and strong-arm tactics complete the repertory, and in recent years many a waiter has become an owner himself, or else tucked away a small fortune before leaving the Raper for more respectable surroundings...
...himself, was proving to be an effective strikebreaker. Many doctors were secretly, and a bit shamefacedly, still treating their patients. Doctors in Brussels began telephoning their patients to say they were back on the job -but please keep it quiet. The strikebreakers were not beyond exercising a little lighthearted blackmail: one dental surgeon replaced a broken bridge for a politician on the condition that he would not use his newly recovered power of speech to lobby against the strike. In Ghent's Refuge Ste. Marie, a surgeon asked for police protection to complete a series of four operations...
...there is time for the referee to provide low comic relief ("Am I running this committee," Senator Mundt splutters ineffectually, "or am I not?"). In the middle rounds the opponents get down to serious slugging, and both take damaging blows-the evidence demonstrates that McCarthy attempted to blackmail the Army and that the Army then attempted to buy McCarthy off. But in the later rounds, McCarthy begins to swing wildly, and Joseph N. Welch, the Army's counsel, delicately cuts him into paper dolls. His methods are exposed as stupid, his morals as prehistoric. "At long last," Welch cries...
Some Western diplomats felt the Communist Christmas present was wrapped in blackmail, nervously awaited Ulbricht's next move. But though the hole in the Wall will be sealed up after the holiday season, it will never seem so impenetrable again. After this brief, tantalizing breach, the Wall's ugly masonry will look all the more intolerable-to East and West Berliner alike...
...Papandreou's spending spree will be covered by rising national income, Greek businessmen were uneasy. When King Paul, siding with the new Premier, agreed to postpone a parliamentary vote of confidence, Karamanlis fumed; he charged that in delaying the early test of strength, the King was submitting to "blackmail" by Papandreou, who implicitly threatened that his defeat might cause political disorder and help the left...