Word: extortionate
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Despite the tension in the courtroom, four defendants remained calm and moved their lips in what seemed to be silent prayer. The impulse was natural: the four were robed and cowled Capuchin friars, accused with three laymen of operating a spectacular extortion-murder ring in racket-ridden Sicily.
"Situation Stabilized." To find out what more needs to be done to strengthen Diem's troops, already being advised and trained in counterguerrilla tactics by some 4,000 U.S. military personnel. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara flew to Hawaii last week for firsthand reports from his Pacific military leaders. After...
But what seems at first an attack on extortion seems at last a coyly sensational exploitation of homosexuality as a theme -and, what's more offensive, an implicit approval of homosexuality as a practice.
Victim (Allied; Pathé-America), a British picture that the Johnston office has found "thematically objectionable," elaborates a startling statistic: in nine out of ten cases of blackmail in Britain, the victim is a homosexual. Why? The answer, as provided by a speech in the script: "A law which sends...
Throughout the three-day trial, Gallo refused to say a word in his defense, although he did allow himself a Cagney-like snarl at a haggle of assistant district attorneys. "Ya dirty rats!" he observed. The jury quickly found Gallo guilty of attempted extortion and conspiracy. The finding, his first...