Word: extortionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From a very significant law-and-order standpoint, the Administration's action was also unwise. It cuts the ground right out from under responsible Negro leaders, like Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young and others, who have argued for the due-process approach, as opposed to violence and extortion in...
The dialogue sounds like a Grade-B gangster movie on late-night television, but the script is from life. It is a chillingly real conversation that took place among three Mafia hoodlums in their hangout. The subject of the session: methods of dispatching associates to a better world. This and...
To begin with, Puzo avoids the opera buffa nicknames that newspaper rewrite men use to lend a tint of life to their gangster stories. Secondly, Puzo's Corleone family has manly standards. Gambling, labor extortion, an occasional unavoidable murder and some judicious bribery are all in order. But no...
Lapidary Care. As for plot, Red Beard could be Dr. Gillespie, and the intern Dr. Kildare: the story is that simple. But where his hero is a physician, Kurosawa is a metaphysician. Going beneath the bathos, he explores his characters' psychology until their frailties and strengths become a sum...
Thomas ("Three-Finger Brown") Lu-chese. Corallo is known as "Tony Ducks" because he has been tried or investigated for extortion, loan-sharking, narcotics pushing, labor racketeering, gambling, strong-arm tactics and murder, but "ducked" almost all charges. His only significant conviction was for bribing a New York Supreme Court...