Word: racket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shortly thereafter, TIME'S office telephones, which had been cut off in June on a thin technicality, were restored to service. However, something new had been added. Whenever you picked up a receiver, the racket of the wiretapping apparatus sounded like a pinball machine...
...hiring hall had become the great stabilizer of maritime employment. Before the unions began setting them up in the mid-'30s, hiring of seamen and longshoremen had been a racket; men were obliged to buy jobs and kick back part of their wages. As the unions ran them, jobs were filled from a list of union men registered at the halls. It was clearly discriminatory; non-union men could get jobs only when there were not enough union men to fill them. Thus the hiring hall became a stronghold of union security. But it brought a measure of peace...
...playing a match of tennis doubles against two athletic young men, Smith and Brown. Potter and his partner, the hardened metaphysician C.E.M. Joad, could scarcely touch the first two cannon balls served to them by Smith, and only by accident did the third one hit Joad's racket, rebounding wildly across the net and landing twelve feet out of court...
...multimillion dollar border racket between the U.S. and Mexico...
...whites that the old cry for a "white hope" never came up, Joe Louis, the slow-thinking Alabama boy, was a champion the whole U.S. was proud of. No taint of suspicion ever hung over any of his 61 pro fights (although he was managed for years by racket men). The gate receipts grossed a whopping $11,000,000 of which his share...