Word: gyp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story abandoned waterfront warehouse, climbed a six-foot metal fence, had a scuffle with a Doberman pinscher (which bit two of them), broke down three doors, and found a still which cost $50,000 to build. It could turn out 2,500 gallons of alcohol and gyp the Government of $50,000 in alcohol taxes every day. The agents arrested two men hiding behind the coils, started looking for the building's owner. A sign on a gate leading to the warehouse said: "Property of the City of New York...
Died. Roger William Riis, 58, Reader's Digest roving editor who specialized in exposing food & drug rackets and airing consumer grievances ("The Truth About Smoking," "The Repairman Will Gyp You If You Don't Watch Out"); of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn...
...wormlike thrusts are mysterious to the average man-but not so mysterious to those who feel the pressure of his vermiform "journalism." Of late weeks, he has been relentlessly worming away at a little-known Manhattan restaurant called Chandler's. According to Winchell, the place is a "gyp joint" run by gougers and chiselers. Stork Clubber Winchell has never been seen in Chandler's himself, but in the past three weeks he has extruded no less than twelve items, even repeating one attack three times. Last week Chandler's owners retorted with a $1,000,000 libel...
...have few people who try to gyp books from the library," Shea notes. "I remember, however, one year in 1928 when we had 2500 books stolen. A bookstore clerk came running into my office waving a tattered and beaten old book. He said some guy tried to sell it. I looked it up in the inventory and sure enough it had been stolen. I told the director, who informed the police, but the director said to me: 'John, I want you to work on this case yourself...
...some private schools no better than gyp joints? Yes, sighs the council, both shoulders to the mat. "The sporadic growth of fly-by-night institutions without standards of any kind confronts independent schools with the same problems which medical schools met and solved in the early 1900s...