Word: racketeer
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...managed to turn his four-year sentence to his advantage by cultivating the friendship of Edward Jones, the policy king of Chicago's South Side, who was serving time for income tax evasion. From Jones, Giancana learned that the city's black-run numbers racket was a $2 million-a-year bonanza, not the penny-ante game that the Mob had always thought. Soon after Giancana was released, he and other Young Turks in the Mafia won control of the numbers through a series of vicious kidnapings, beatings and murders of black racketeers...
...full title, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Ui is Hitler. He and Goebbels, Goring and Roehm, under various aliases, are presented as Chicago gangsters who muscle into the vegetable trust (the Depression-ravaged German industrialists) and bulldoze the honest but senile leading citizen (Hindenburg) into legalizing their protection racket...
After an exchange of goals upped the contest, 9-7. Tennis got in the racket again. A conversion of an A1 Senior pass, an assist on Bruckmann's third score, and yet another goal--this time with Captain Quinn helping out--brought the Crimson from a near-match point situation to its first lead in the game...
...most consistent, well-rounded attack in tennis. His game is built on quickness, conditioning and a savagely total concentration. Blessed with stamina, fast reflexes and a long-distance vision that allows him to read the ball's direction of flight the instant it leaves his opponent's racket, Connors will return shots others cannot reach...
...well-balanced offensive display led the Harvard racket-men to an 8-1 pasting of a mediocre Engineer squad Tuesday...