Word: racketeered
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...days all the tunnels and shafts had to be dug with pick, shovel and explosives--backbreaking work. Now there are circular drills mounted on caterpillar treads, which lurch forward chewing at the soft rock, making a hellish racket that changes to a shrill glass-crunching scream when the teeth hit a pocket of "potch" (the gray waste near opal that runs in veins through the matrix). These drills are 4 ft. in diameter, and they create vaults in the tunnel roofs--beautiful, arched Romanesque spaces cut in the creamy pink-veined stone. It is troglodyte architecture: dense, theatrical and intensely...
...campaign events across the state, McCain blasted the current campaign finance system, calling it "an incumbent protection racket" beholden to special interests and promised that as president, he would make campaign finance reform a top priority...
...sparks of inspired nastiness, it's thrilling to pick it back up, for exquisite set pieces on the man who introduced "female butt cleavage" to network TV, on the four meanings (three of them ironic) of the term "your friend," on corporate travel (flying business class is "a protection racket--you pay extra, or you just might get roughed up in coach...
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...wrote a poem about a horse who played golf. It all rhymed and I thought it was great...I walked around in the schoolyard reading it, and people liked it. I was the most popular person in the class that day, and I thought "this is a racket." So since then I've been searching for that one moment of greatness I had when I was nine. [laughs...