Word: racketeered
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...blown off the slippery court at Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. Then Pancho, who feels very badly when sports writers call him "the best Grade B player in tennis," steadied down. With his two-handed drive, he whipped ferociously at every ball he could lay his racket on, cheered himself after good shots with a "Bravo, Pancho." In the next three sets, he trounced onetime U.S. Singles Champion Don McNeill (still rusty from Navy duty), became the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles. The score...
...judge of New York State's Court of Appeals, longtime twister of the Tammany Tiger's tail; after a heart attack; in Albany. In 1933, Medalie passed on to Protégé Thomas E. Dewey the U.S. attorneyship that put him on the high road to racket-busting fame and national political significance...
...match 5-7, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2. A stubborn, powerful player, with the doglike retrieving instincts of Georgia's Bitsy Grant, he also had plenty of offensive equipment, a cannonball service, a good backhand, a devastating overhead. He swung his heavy (15¼ oz.) racket two-handed in Bromwich-Vivian McGrath style...
...were performed in San Francisco last year. The city's booming birth rate ran a poor second with 16,400 babies born. These startling statistics were figured out by San Francisco's District Attorney Edmund G. Brown. Fists flying, the D.A. was wading into a sordid abortion racket which he claims lures pregnant women to the Golden Gate city from all over the West Coast...
...Victoria and Albert Museum, in a crowd peering at the works of Matisse and Picasso, she clapped sharply for attention, gathered a little crowd about her, and began a speech. These paintings, she said, were: 1) "the product of diseased minds"; 2) "garbage masquerading as art"; 3) a racket imposed on the public. From her hearers, reported PM, came a warm spatter of applause...