Word: blackmailing
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...choosing a President are eloquent and moving. Yet he has not hesitated to play on the theme that the Democratic Party might lose the Catholic vote to the Republicans unless he is the presidential nominee-a suggestion that the New York Times's Washington Correspondent James Reston called "blackmail...
...rising in his turn to hail the supreme chief, pronounced Khrushchev's speech "historic." The other satellite chieftains chimed in. But Communist China's Delegate Peng Chen was not impressed. Peking newspapers heaped scorn on "modern revisionists" who, "frightened out of their wits by the imperialists' blackmail of nuclear war, exaggerated the consequences of the destructiveness of nuclear war and begged imperialism for peace at any cost." The same newspapers noted only in a sentence that Khrushchev had also made some remarks and received "warm applause." The rift was public, and it was growing...
Suggesting Blackmail. Kennedy got a full minute's hand from the 400 editors when he sat down, and no one responded to his invitation to ask questions. But the New York Times's Washington Correspondent James Reston next morning raised a couple that the editors neglected. In scoffing at the evidence of Roman Catholic bloc-voting in the Wisconsin primary, said Reston, Kennedy was bucking some convincing statistics. Kennedy's denial of a possible Catholic revolt if he is rejected by the convention "helps remove the vague suggestion of blackmail that has hung over his campaign...
...message to the state defense council, Republican Rockefeller said fallout protection "is essential to our military defense . . . our negotiating strength . . . to the deterrence of war . . . and our ability to withstand nuclear blackmail." Estimated cost of Rocky's program: $1.5 billion. On a do-it-yourseli basis, a homeowner with a basement might build his shelter for about $50 a person; he would pay at least twice as much if a contractor did the job. To sweeten the plan, shelters would be exempt from local real estate taxes and construction costs could be deducted from state income...
...happily, and so it turns out. Soon she is set up as a grosse cocotte with a fancy flat and a flashy white Mercedes of her own. Then she takes on a sideline: selling information about the German munitions makers to their French competitors. Then she takes on another: blackmail. One night nine shiny black Mercedes limousines roll up to the door of her apartment house. A scream is heard. The nine limousines roll out of sight in sober single file...