Word: extortionate
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Horrors laid at the door of the G. P. U. run the whole gamut from individual rape and extortion to general massacre of rebellious villages. One can believe little or much-as in the case of "German Atrocities" and the "Third Degree" administered by U. S. policemen.
Findings of Fact. In marked contrast to the Commissioners' obscurity of decision was the clarity and completeness of their fact-finding. Not that the Commission discovered anything which honest-minded citizens have not recognized as a fact for years. But the facts were stated fairly for the first time by...
Gandhi, for the Mahatma, for St. Gandhi, for Jailbird Gandhi not thou- sands but millions of individual Indians are taking individual beatings which they could, escape by paying what His Majesty's Government call, quite accurately, "nor-mal taxes." Physical extortion, even of taxes, is in law virtually everywhere...
Webster's New International Dictionary defines jew: "... To overreach by sharp practice, cheating or trickery; to practice imposition or extortion upon;- used opprobriously in allusion to practices imputed to the Jews by those who dislike them, or now sometimes colloquially without conscious reference to the Jews."
Sued. Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty; by James Joseph Tunney; at Bridgeport, Conn. The charge: Extortion, defamation of character.