Word: blackmailing
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...peace, was reputed at 15 a proficient killer. He joined the Navy as a cadet, won several promotions as an officer, was cashiered when a drunken brawl over a woman reached the courts. Then he entered the Nazi movement, looked about for a chance to rise. A chance appeared-blackmail. Learning that a Prussian official named Koch was in correspondence with the dissident Gregor Strasser, Heydrich courted Koch's wife and stole the letters. Armed with these, he extorted a recommendation to Himmler, who gave him a post with the Munich Elite Guard. Thereafter his rise was rapid. Just...
...cordial while the seal kissed the Countess' hand with "very moist lips." But as soon as he moved on, Bratianu-beard said: "Voila le gigolo le phis dangereux de Bucharest." All his friends in high Rumanian society knew, said the Old Excellencies, that "he lived on women and blackmail" and "worked for Moruzov's Secret Police." Nearly everybody in the Athene Palace worked for Moruzov, they said, from waiters and washroom attendants to "the apple-cheeked page boys . . . and, of course, the demimondaines who sat professionally in the lobby." Warned Bratianu-beard, "Watch your step, Madame, and confide...
...Government which is only doing what is to the best interest of the nation. If, as is less likely, labor is ready to take the arrogant course of retaliating with strike sabotage, then we had better face it now. You don't get anywhere by temporizing with blackmail...
...motive is to provide a haven for Housekeeper Ellen's beloved though wacky sisters) might have gone unnoticed if Albert (Louis Hayward), a renegade nephew of the sisters, had not shown up at the old manor house. He guesses Auntie Ellen's guilty secret and attempts to blackmail her. Their clash of wits and wills finally ends disastrously for both...
...Lincoln, two of whose brothers were in the Southern Army, was long wrongly accused of sending information to Richmond. She gathered strange persons around her and some of them tried to blackmail her. After her son Willie died (of typhoid), she would start from her sleep at night...