Word: extortionate
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The game comes in a box shaped like a small violin case. On the playing board, the island of Manhattan is divided into neighborhoods-Harlem, Little Italy, the Lower East Side. "The object of the game," the instructions explain, "is to take control of a racket-bookmaking, extortion, loan sharking...
Moreover the five New York families are just emerging from a decade that left their tight paramilitary structure shaken and disorganized. The bitterness of past Mafia wars still lingers, especially between Colombo and Joseph Gallo, the volatile former Profaci triggerman whose defection sparked the 1961 war. He once kept a...
Plots and Plots. Last year, Barr expelled five sixth-graders, four for what he labeled "extortion," the fifth for stealing $15 from a teacher in order to meet the alleged junior extortionists' demands. As some parents saw it, this was a case for psychiatry, not punishment. They were aghast...
Sir: What ever happened to the American who, when faced with extortion threats from pirates of Tripoli, responded, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!"?
McNamara accepted the Commissioner's job from former mayor John Collins, who wanted to upgrade the position by bringing in a professional cop rather than another in the long line of politicians who had occupied it previously. After 18 years as an FBI agent, McNamara was not accustomed to dealing...