Word: racket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1946, when Bonn's war-ruined university was reestablishing itself in a half-blasted castle, Theologian Barth was invited to return. Lecturing at 7 o'clock in the morning, "after we had sung a psalm or a hymn to cheer us up," competing with the racket of rubble-clearing machinery outside his classroom, Barth spoke, without notes, on the Apostles' Creed. The 24 lectures that resulted deal, phrase by phrase, and in some instances word by word, with this oldest confession of the Church...
...small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME, April...
...small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME, April...
...small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME. April...
...point, when Senator McCarthy asked him if Fixer John Maragon had ever given him campaign contributions from Racket King Frankie Costello, Vaughan did a double take, which would have been a credit to Comedian Oliver Hardy. "Am I supposed to. know Frankie Costello?" he asked. "I have heard of people named Costello . . . May I ask, who is 'Frank Costello...