Word: racketeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder you never get your homework done, with that awful racket going on day and night. Turn it down this instant...
Nowadays, alas, the espionage racket lacks class. Ambition is driven by hubris and shabby moneygrubbing. Pollard gets a job with Naval Intelligence and sells out to the Israelis. Ames succeeds thanks to the "incredible malfeasance" of colleagues who do not think it suspicious that he banks more than $1 million and drives a $40,000 Jaguar on a $69,000 salary. Nicholson, charged with, among other things, selling the Russians the names of CIA people he trained, flunks his own course in dry cleaning: he never suspects that for months he has been taped, wiretapped and photographed by counterintelligence agents...
...early-morning (and afternoon and evening) air with cries of "Good morning!" or "Good evening!" or "Thank you very much! Please! Thank you very much!" These greetings were punctuated by constant repetition of a candidate's name and produced not the sound of democracy but an unbearable cacophony. Such racket is the implacable enemy of the reflection that democracy should encourage. I fear that despite the political correctness in some of its outward forms, Japan remains at heart and in spirit a profoundly undemocratic country. MICHAEL HOFFMAN Hokkaido, Japan...
...watched Pete lean heavily on his racket, I was sure he was done. There was no physical way for him to recover. When his first serve on the next point was hit with no speed by a man who looked barely able to lift a racket, there was little doubt...
Then Pete did something unbelievable. He cracked a second-serve ace wide to the deuce court to set up a match point. Boston Globe sportswriter and general tennis guru Bud Collins described it as the single greatest swing of a tennis racket he had ever seen. It was one of those moments in sports that brings you out of your seat, no matter where you are or when...