Word: racketeered
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...Schuster did, or at least knew about it. 3) Schuster was getting money to keep his mouth shut. 4) Willy, out of a job, had stumbled on to something, too. Schuster knew of Sutton's whereabouts, and turned him in to get rid of him and keep his own racket exclusive...
...quasi-pragmatist I got quite a kick from your Adler article . . . Perhaps education is a racket, but as any high-school lad knows, there is none bigger than selling "Great Books" to hopeful parents, whereupon they collect dust and provide quarters for termites in the parlor...
With Elaine, back in Italy, "the drums . . . rolled into one prolonged gigantic thunder." Perhaps partly to get away from all this racket, Pietro goes on the fifth Crusade, where he is captured by the Saracens and meets Zenobia. "To such a one, he thought . . . every thousand years the ribald gods give such a form in order to drive...
C.P.S. trustees, worried by longtime whispers, had canvassed a large group of patients, and all too often found the whispers justified. Now, in any case where gouging is suspected, the doctor's bill is audited before he gets paid. The trustees hope that, now that the racket has been exposed, the guilty doctors will mend their ways. C.P.S. would prefer not to sue them, but if it has to, it will...
...Elizabeth (he played her a Chopin étude when she was Duchess of York). But the person who turned his glamorous life upside down was Journalist Dorothy Woodman (wife of New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin), who convinced him in the twinkling of an eye that war was just "a racket." Beverley had found the "cause" he needed to balance his "idiotic life" as a bright young thing. The book that resulted from his conversion, Cry Havoc (1933), proved to be one of the influential works of the decade. Like a match to a bonfire, it touched off, as he says...