Word: racketeered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crusade to suppress sin and soup up circulation, the New York Post Home News last week inflated a new dragon. It launched a series called "Millions on Every Pitch," supposedly exposing a nationwide, $33 million-a-day gambling racket based on professional baseball. Cried the Post: "Powerful gambling syndicates, ruthless bookmakers and gangsters, common cutthroats and other criminal vermin [make millions] at the expense of the great sport of American youth...
...Ambidextrous 19-year-old Beverly Baker of Santa Monica, Calif., who took a first set from Brough at Manchester. Freckle-faced, pug-nosed Tennist Baker changes her racket from hand to hand and strokes every shot on her forehand. She hits hard, but needs more experience, more change of pace. Most of her courtmates think she will be the champ some day-maybe soon. At 19, Beverly has plenty of time...
...tough little film about a washed-up smalltimer (Robert Ryan) in the fight racket (TIME, April...
...tough little film about a washed-up smalltimer (Robert Ryan) in the fight racket (TIME, April...
...tough little film about a washed-up small-timer (Robert Ryan) in the fight racket (TIME, April...