Word: extortionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For Fleming fans, who like 007 just as he is, worse is to come. Pitted once more against Ernst Blofeld, the fell master of the international crime syndicate called SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Revenge and Extortion), Bond at first displays his customary stocks in trade. He uses his own...
The Second-Class Rackets. More than internal rivalry has sapped the strength of Cosa Nostra in recent years. Its profitable trafficking in narcotics and prostitution has become too dangerous. Now it has been reduced to such second-class rackets as Shylocking (lending money at exorbitant interest rates), gambling and extortion...
Died. Harold ("Pop") Nathan, 83, holder of the FBI's No. 2 badge and J. Edgar Hoover's right-hand man during the gang-busting 1930s, a small, owl-eyed pipe smoker who looked more like a bookkeeper than the top cop who cracked down on the Black...
Poor No. He was an illegitimate child, farmed out to unfeeling foster parents. So naturally he grew up to be a mad scientist, joined the mad scientists' union (S.P.E.C.T.R.E.-the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion), and set out to rule the world. When 007 finds him...
Doctor No himself is a Chinese archfiend with black contact lenses and artificial hands who won his spurs in the Shanghai tong wars, and as a charter member of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terror, Revenge and Extortion) he is almost a match for James Bond. His island off Jamaica...