Word: extort
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Laxity & Negligence. What bothered the Senators most was the memory of Master Spy Redl. "It follows," they said, "that if blackmailers can extort money from a homosexual under threat of disclosure, espionage agents can use the same type of pressure to extort confidential information...
...before a major push. In the face of the Korean winter and the strength of the U.N. armies facing them, this seemed unlikely. A better guess was that the Chinese in North Korea were there to pin down supplies that might otherwise be used in Indo-China, and to extort political concessions from...
...South Korean marines whom I observed in front line areas are brutal. They murder to save themselves the trouble of escorting prisoners to the rear; they murder civilians simply to get them out of the way or to avoid the trouble of searching and cross-examining them. And they extort information-information our forces need and require of the South Korean interrogators-by means so brutal that they cannot be described...
...they just yell at him." So far no one has been able to yell him down on his own notions of artistic integrity. Menotti's formula is simple: "I take less money and get the kind of contract I want." He is probably the only musician ever to extort a contract from Hollywood (for two scripts in 1947) which provided that not one word, nor one note of his music, if he chose to write any, was to be changed. To nobody's surprise, no movie ever came of it. He has been embarrassingly direct with potential backers...
...interested the West since the famous Moscow purge trials of 1936-38, a question which has become increasingly urgent with such postwar trials as that of Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Bulgaria's 15 Protestant leaders and the U.S.'s Robert Vogeler: How do Communist secret police extort "confessions...