Word: racketeered
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...filters that make it deaf to everything except a combination of five different radio waves transmitted simultaneously on narrow frequency bands. The most complex electronic babble sounds like silence to a missile equipped with this gadget, but when the five-part signal comes, it picks it out of the racket and obeys its command. The five frequencies can be varied, giving millions of combinations, so each missile of a group can have, if necessary, its own drop-dead signal...
Despite the tension in the courtroom, four defendants remained calm and moved their lips in what seemed to be silent prayer. The impulse was natural: the four were robed and cowled Capuchin friars, accused with three laymen of operating a spectacular extortion-murder ring in racket-ridden Sicily...
...tennis court. After the match, Barnaby approached him and said, "Say, that was good ball you were playing out there." And the reply was, "That's nothing, Jack. I'm going to be a champ at your other game." (This when he had never held a squash racket in his hand...
...young homosexual (Peter McEnery) who has robbed his employer to pay his extortionist is caught by the police. Rather than implicate the eminent barrister (Dirk Bogarde) with whom he is emotionally (though not sexually) involved, the boy commits suicide. Deeply shocked, the lawyer resolves to break up the extortion racket, even if he has to risk his marriage (Sylvia Syms) and wreck his career...
...kitchen can usually get far more than a working-class family can afford: up to $20 a week in a country where the average weekly wage is $42. For a London scrap-metal dealer and his pregnant wife, "home" after working hours is a three-ton truck. A common racket for landlords is to charge $200 or $300 key money for "fixtures" that seldom amount to more than a broken-down chair. Worst results of the housing shortage: thousands of split families, and the reappearance of something close to the Dickensian workhouse...