Word: racketeered
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...bumping the car in front and the car in back, I finally opened almost enough room for my Lincoln. Just as I was making progress, a Cadillac zoomed up the street and honked at me to let him pass. The racket got me nervous and I missed my pass at the parking space...
...Bonanza. Time and circumstances, he found, had worked some major changes on the face of U.S. gangland. Big-scale prostitution, the big pre-World War I racket, had been spoiled by the Mann Act. Repeal had put an end to the era of bootleggers, gang war and magnificent funerals. The U.S.'s fast-buck boys had moved in on a bonanza which proved richer than their wildest dreams. The new bonanza: big-time gambling, organized on a big-time scale...
Trimmed down to 133 Ibs. (from 140), fast-talking Nancy announced that the indoor tournament was just Phase 1 of her campaign to win the Nationals at Forest Hills next September. "You know why I want to "win the championship? I'm using my racket to get ahead. I don't want to be a tennis bum, living off people on the Riviera...
...week's end the committee was back in Washington quizzing bookies and investigating the "billion-dollar" punchboard racket. But it proposed to come back to New York next month, interview O'Dwyer in person, and hold open hearings with a group of witnesses which might even include Virginia Hill, great & good friend of the late "Bugsy" Siegel. New Yorkers could hardly wait to find out whether the city had been suffering from deep-seated Costello-itus or just surface symptoms of itchy fingers...
...Soon the racket began to snowball. Loyal young Democrats flocked in to see their politician pals, went away with notes assuring them of a spot on the Annex's roster of 3,000 temporary workers. All they had to do was punch in at 5:30 p.m., while away the evening hours and return to punch out again at 2 a.m. If anyone squawked, the whispered threat of a politician's name would...