Word: blackmailing
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Without complex airplane or missile-weapons systems no nation can hope to equal the might of the U.S. or the U.S.S.R., even if it cuts quite a figure among its atom-less neighbors. But the world of the abundant atom offers infinite opportunities for small-scale tyranny, blackmail and bluster that may in time involve bigger nations. The changes make more imperative man's need to develop the willingness and devise a way to keep international law and order...
...miracle" surgery, which "lead the public to believe that anything less than a perfect result is per se evidence of negligence." Result: an increased urge to sue. Some doctors insist that only 10% of all malpractice suits have any merit; the rest, they claim, are nothing more than "legalized blackmail...
Caught by Blackmail. A Sudeten German born in Czechoslovakia, Frenzel fled to Britain after Munich and returned to Czechoslovakia at the end of the war with the liberating army. At first he tried to work with the coalition government of Eduard Benes. When he saw that the Czechs meant to expel all Sudeten Germans, he gave up and moved to Bavaria. With his clean anti-Nazi record, Frenzel quickly established himself in Bavaria's Socialist Party, reached the Bundestag in 1953. But during his period of dickering with Benes, Frenzel apparently made written commitments that would have ruined him politically...
...Sukarno prepared to join Khrushchev at the United Nations next week to raise the question of West New Guinea and the Karel Doorman, Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns observed sadly: "International relations are drifting toward a kind of anarchy where blackmail replaces the rules of diplomacy...
They marry, they quarrel, the plot commences: Vidal seeks solace with a luscious dancing teacher (Dawn Addams) who levers him into a compromising position. Then, as she tries to blackmail him with pictures, she is murdered. Did Vidal do it? Brigitte believes not, and loyally bounces about Paris trying to catch the real felon before the law puts the arm on her husband...