Word: racketeered
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...Published his first novel (Tucker's People, a study of Harlem's policy racket and concomitant gangsterism), dubbed "the most thoughtful and talented novel" of the year by Manhattan's finicky Nation...
Most U.S. dog tracks have a bad smell. Wonderland was no exception. Originally backed by Al Capone interests who knew how to get along with politicians, the track started out as a wonderful racket. Today, with respectable Boston names on its board of directors and a totalizator to compute and publicly quote the odds, there is no tampering with greyhounds, no back-room rigging of the payoff...
...Jackson, in a dissenting opinion last week, "can the Court today hold it a 'high constitutional privilege' to go to homes, including those of devout Catholics on Palm Sunday morning, and thrust upon them literature calling their church a 'whore' and their faith a 'racket...
...evening, Tin Pan Alley tunes, thumped and wheezed from a piano and an accordion, split the African darkness. The racket came from a rococo Moorish villa which soldiers in the area call "Souk*-el-Spaatz." But the concerts are only occasional. Most of the time Souk-el-Spaatz is a silent hive of conspiring and conferring men. It is the headquarters of the air war being waged by the Allies in Tunisia...
...success made the swindlers overbold. Well-satisfied claimants went to work for the lawyers, drummed up new business for a cut of the profits. The law firms which ran the racket even began a price war. The lawyers also became less careful in the selection of clients. Persons not only in the 50s but also in the 40s and even 30s were making claims for disability from heart disease...