Word: racketeered
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...years, the loudest noises in the aerospace business have been the rumble of liquid-fueled boosters blasting spacecraft into orbit, the sharper roar of solid-fuel military missiles climbing into their long trajectories, and the continuing, wordy battles between the promoters of each type. Now, back of the racket, can be heard the insistent voice of still another competitor in the rocketry race-the hybrid that manufactures its power by combining liquid oxidant with solid fuel. Detractors may scoff that the hybrid combines all the dangers and difficulties of both solids and liquids. Its champions are confident that...
...labor leaders go, Walter Reuther and Thomas Gleason are about as different as possible: one the smooth, articulate head of the tightly organized auto workers' union, the other the abrasive president of the rebellious and racket-tainted longshoremen. But both Reuther and Gleason insist on the importance of those vexatious laws of the laborer's life, the work rules...
...series of blasting volleys directly at the Aussies' feet, they reeled off four straight points to make it 4-4. Fred Stolle wound up to serve-and Ralston looped a backhand volley over his head-love-15. McKinley smashed a forehand past Emerson's futilely waving racket-love-30-pounded over a short, cross-court volley-love-40. Then, with a magnificent overhead smash straight between the two Aussies, Ralston administered the coup de grâce. The last game was easy, and the U.S. won the match...
...from his famous great-grand-daddy, Man O' War. Valenzuela sensed it: "Suddenly, he was the old Kelso again. Suddenly, I knew we were home." So did the fans. "It started way back there on the backstretch," said Jockey John Rotz, who was riding a distant trailer. "That racket-I never heard anything like...
...Golden Boy, which opened in 1937, became a movie in 1939, was revived on Broadway in 1952, and is still on its feet after out-of-town troubles with direction and script. Sammy Davis-he has dropped the Jr.-plays the violinist who quits the fiddle for the fight racket...