Word: extortionate
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Both syndicates have heavy interests, during the winter season, in Miami. Apparently, said the committee, "there is a gentleman's agreement . . . not to infringe on the activities of each other." The "adhesive" which holds the two syndicates together, the committee suggested, seriously if a little tentatively, is the Mafia...
The Slashed Trees. Meanwhile, a handful of fanatical Communists wages a bloody and murderous-campaign of terror. Each day brings its spate of outrages. Grenades are thrown into Singapore cafes, restaurants or movies, and patrons are killed or badly wounded. Said a British official: "We have no idea how many...
"A Very Shocking Thing." Whether Britain and France fell by force of arms or by force of political extortion, Douglas pointed out, their fall would leave the great industrial potential of Western Europe and the raw materials of Asia open to Russia without a struggle. Taft's reply: If...
Corruption and inefficiency in Spain's unsteady domestic government have led to declining production and rising prices. Since his officials now have a vested interest in maintaining their powers of extortion and black-market speculation, reform from within is unlikely, no matter what promises Franco might make--and as yet...
New Yorkers into realizing they were about to lose a first-rate governor. As the only presidential candidate the Republicans have ever renominated after his failure to make it the first time, Dewey had missed the White House; he had been too assured, his personality did not charm the voters...