Word: illicitness
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...Priest must use his wits and restrain his brawn, come out with a plan that can trap even the highest head on the dope trade totem pole sans direct violence. He wins because of his intelligence, and because he is right--of all the blacks who were sucked into illicit trade, at least one man has to break the chain if it is ever to be stopped...
...fact that some Chicago policemen are under federal investigation for their possible connection with the crimes. Some of the victims were believed to be heroin wholesalers who may have been killed for refusing to pay bribes; others could have been slain for stopping payoffs that put thousands of illicit dollars a month into police pockets...
...declining to expand First Amendment rights to safeguard a reporter's confidentiality, the Court has endangered the ability of newsmen to gather information about illicit activities. The Court's majority opinion holds that newsmen enjoy no special privilege before a grand jury; it maintains that newsmen have recourse through the courts to challenge a jury's interrogation if they feel it is peripheral to the case under investigation. Further, the Court says that by requiring newsmen to divulge sources, given this legal recourse, it is imposing no prior restraint nor any other shackle forbidden by the Constitution. Yet the practical...
...along the North Sea coast toward the end of the 18th century, it came to have special application in America to the men who made illegal whisky-quite literally by the light of the moon. While their ranks have been decimated, a few moonshiners still ply their illicit trade in the deep recesses of Appalachia. Feeling rather like David Livingstone in search of the Nile's source. Correspondent William Friedman was blindfolded and led through the labyrinthine Eastern Kentucky hills to meet one of the last of those who brew "white lightning" in hidden caves. His report...
...party journal Red Flag ran the full libretto of the opera, along with a commentary noting that the traffice-control man's crime was maintaining "illicit relations with foreign countries"-precisely the charge that had been made repeatedly against Lin Piao...