Word: racketeered
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...good. Intelligent observers unanimously denounced his Planacea as a monstrous fantasy, but for Founder Townsend they had only pitying sympathy. He might be simpleminded, but he was also, they were sure, greathearted. Even when ugly rumors rose that the Townsend Plan had turned out to be only another mean racket, with poor deluded oldsters as its victims, such charges simply made most observers believe that good, grey Dr. Townsend was being used as a front by sharpers who had swarmed into his Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. First hint that Dr. Townsend was more than a simple, pious figurehead came...
...Jung is a thorough-going Swiss--bluff, independent, wise and utterly aloof from political entanglements. To a mind of such university the Nazi racket is a phenomenon to be impersonally studied, and perhaps judged from an emotional distance. That he should be persuaded to pay lip service to the present German regime cannot be supposed by anyone who knows him. And finally, and this is the point, there is no indication that any sentiments that he may entertain on this subject have affected his scientific work
...city vice investigations commonly rocket up in a splatter of front-page headlines, sputter out on back pages with a few inconsequential arrests and vague generalities which leave decent citizens no better informed about local conditions than they were before. Last week in Manhattan a racket investigation launched by Governor Lehman provided New Yorkers with an astonishingly detailed exposition of the personnel and workings of organized prostitution...
...Mayor of New York and a delegation of Jews. Inspecting the files of Miss Berd and Rabbi Schmellner last week, police and 25 accountants said they uncovered records of nearly $2,000,000 taken in as "loans." According to police who questioned both the rabbi and his secretary, the "racket" worked as follows...
...between February and July, 23 million shells punctuated the deadlocked argument; Douaumont, captured and recaptured but each time by an accident, the death trap where an explosion wiped out a whole battalion and the corpses were bricked in where they lay. The Crown Prince, dressed in tennis flannels, a racket under his arm, cheering on the troops marching up to the front line; his aide tossing packets of cigarets from a speeding car, and the soldiers stamping them into the mud after he has passed. The German veterans' version of I Want to Go Home: "For this campaign...