Word: racketeer
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...cohorts are reminiscing over last weekend's roadtrip to Princeton. It seems the resourceful hoopsters held a party in one of the hotel rooms, keeping Coach Kleinfelder preoccupied while Horne snuck back and smeared her doorhandles, toilet seat, and phone with Vaseline, switched her luggage, stashed her squash racket and other belongings under the sink, telephoned the desk and switched the morning wakeup call to 6 a.m., and then waltzed back nonchalantly to the party...
...from the audience, I gladly came forward. Merrill asked me to hold a board which he would split by the sheer force of one punch. You can imagine how difficult it was to explain to my coach the next day how I had received such a blow to my racket hand. Merrill said I flinched--I don't know what happened...
...cities buzzing with the din of portable radios and the "civilized" hustle of discos, drug deals, and leisure suits. More and more, the troupe's show business must take a backseat to the oldest profession, and Lord Gypsy is forced to consider a proposition to join a smuggling racket...
...Coma, the bestselling novel that became a hit movie, greedy physicians have a nifty racket going: in order to acquire valuable organs for transplant surgery, they slip patients into unconsciousness, then declare them irreversibly braindamaged. If a recent television program in Britain were to be believed, Coma is not so far off the mark. The show, part of the BBC'S Panorama program, asked the question Transplants: Are the Donors Really Dead? The shocking answer: maybe...
Animator Walter Lantz and his bride Gracie did not get much sleep on their 1941 honeymoon. Explains Walter, now 80: "It was this darned woodpecker. He made a terrible racket and ruined the roof of our cottage." Unable to silence the pest, Lantz made him immortal-by introducing the creature into one of his Andy Panda cartoons. "Universal Studios told me I ought to have my head examined," he recalls. "They said he's noisy, raucous, obnoxious; he'll never go." They were right, except on that last point. Now in his 40th year, Woody Woodpecker remains...