Word: racketeer
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...Radcliffe tennis team didn't win a single match this weekend against Port Washington, a Long Island racket club of nationally-ranked junior players, but coach Corey Wynn was not discouraged...
International politics had nothing to do with the abrupt action by the Scandinavian governments. What had happened was that North Koreans in all three countries* had been caught red-handed in a massive smuggling racket involving liquor, cigarettes and dope -apparently instigated by the financially hard-pressed government of President Kim II Sung. Officials in Norway estimated that their branch of the Kim gang had smuggled into the country at least 4,000 bottles of booze (mostly Polish vodka) and 140,000 cigarettes, which were then given surreptitiously to Norwegian wholesalers for distribution on the black market. In Denmark...
...very medium of a musical revue tends to render Harlem's depiction somewhat roseate. Not all Harlem was involved in the nightclub and speakeasy scene, and the numbers racket wars hardly deserve the elegant sentimentalism the production emphasizes. Even when a grimy, overalled Keith Davis breaks out into a powerful "I'm Gonna Tell God All My Troubles," the show's smooth cosmopolitanism implicitly undercuts his simple spiritual...
...pray 25 times a day," Carter was misquoted by Mort Sahl, "but I've never asked God to make me President because I didn't want to take advantage of the relationship"), with teeth like Bugs Bunny ("That man can eat a pineapple through a tennis racket," observed Comedian Pat Paulsen). But Ford's maladroitness as a topic was short-lived, and as Planters and Mimic Rich Little discovered, "There is only so much you could do with peanuts...
Against these dodges, police are all but helpless-partly because of budget and personnel cuts, although it is difficult to see how even vast hordes of police could stop this particular, elusive racket. Also there has been a concerted lack of interest on the part of the courts and state prosecutors. Only nine buttleggers were sent to jail in New York City last year-seven of them for three months or less...