Word: bootleged
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...Smugglers. Glenlivet men have been cutting Faemussach peat since 1824, when Grant's great-grandfather, George Smith, took out a license for his illicit still and legalized it as The Glenlivet Distillery. This won the enmity of his Highland neighbors, who ran some 200 bootleg stills in the glen, and smuggled their spirits to the Lowlands rather than pay duty to His Majesty's revenue officers. Highland hijackers waylaid Glenlivet's pony trains as they packed legal whisky over the craggy hills to Perth and Edinburgh. George Smith, a brace of loaded pistols strapped to his waist...
Border guards have tried to stamp out the smuggling with extra patrols and more careful searches. The courts have stiffened the penalties for large-scale smuggling, raising the customary $200 fine to $1,000 and confiscating trucks caught carrying contraband. But the flood, estimated at 50 million bootleg cigarettes a month, continues unabated. The price is too good, the demand too great, the border too long and too free...
Offensively, it was a sadder tale for the Bulldog. Highly-touted halfback Jerry Conway deserves a considerably lower touting after going approximately nowhere against Princeton. Ryan and sub Ed Mulloy, although the former is very deceptive (even pulls a bootleg on occasion), were consistently rushed through a porous line, and threw looping basketball-passes to reliable receiver Ed Woodsum. Yale's one magnificent back is Mr. Spears...
...Sweet as Sugar." It was the kind of rough & tumble background from which the best fighters have always come. By the time of his divorce, Ray had already convinced George Gainford that he was a fiercely determined comer. He was well known and well traveled in the bootleg circuit (i.e., unlicensed fights held in small clubs) around New York and Connecticut. One day in 1936 "Smitty" borrowed the amateur fight card of a fighter named Ray Robinson for his first official fight, got stuck with the name. A year later, after watching the lanky kid in action, a sportwriter said...
...bootleg bouts ended when Robinson turned professional in 1940. As an amateur he had never lost a fight, had won 85 straight, including Golden Gloves titles in the featherweight and lightweight divisions. Robinson's first professional bout was a four-round preliminary at Madison Square Garden. He won (a second-round knockout), and the $100 he earned was the equivalent to four bootleg bouts, where wristwatches were the currency...