Word: racket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curious remark on the subject a fortnight ago was probably intended to be metaphorical, not a reference to any official; but it now bore the ring of prophecy. "Why pick on a sergeant [i.e., Hunt]," Vaughan had demanded, "when at least two major generals are in the same racket...
Little Paris had suffered a spell of unaccustomed purity in 1947-48 under the racket-busting rule of deputy police director Pacifique ("Pax") Plante (TIME, Nov. 10, 1947). Pax had closed the dice games, bookies and brothels down tight...
...tough little film about a washed-up smalltimer in the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TiME, April...
...terse, four-point reply: 1) he knew Hunt only casually, considered him a mere "file clerk who makes maybe $10,000 a year" (Vaughan's base pay as a major general: $8,800); 2) he knew there were "at least 300 people in Washington" in the same racket, selling their knowledge of Washington ways to businessmen who want government contracts; 3) he couldn't understand why people would "pick on a sergeant [i.e., Hunt, who was a wartime colonel] when at least two major generals are in the same racket"; 4) the entire subject was "silly...
...through the second and third sets, misfired in the fourth. But he never seemed in serious danger, and ran out the final game of the fifth set at love to win his first Wimbledon title, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Then he tossed his racket 20 feet into the air, shook hands all around, embraced the championship...