Word: racketeered
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...Duluth. The novel is a shotgun satire of, among other things, the modern literary racket, from assembly line romances to academic criticism. Take, for example, Vidal's mock theory of après poststructuralism: "Corollary to the relative fictive law of absolute uniqueness is the simultaneity effect, which is to fiction what Miriam Heisenberg's law is to physics. It means that any character can appear, simultaneously, in as many fictions as the random may require." This is meant to explain why characters who die in Duluth can reappear in a TV show of the same name...
Deanne Loonin was a late starter by tennis standards. She didn't pick up a racket until she was 10, but by the time she finished high school in San Diego, Loonin had become one of the top players in the Southern California section's brutal competition...
Durbin believes his "thinking-man's racket" will become more popular once people are aware of its superiority over conventional rackets. So far, it hasn't produced a profit, even though "thinking men" have been forking over $210 for Durbin's graphic model in the eight months it's been on the market...
...Dartmouth men's tennis team because the first squad to adopt the black and orange racket (Princeton's colors), hoping to capitalize on its advantages in order to upend the probable Ivy League champs, Harvard or Princeton, with the Princetonian invention...
Perhaps a match between the two presidents would reveal to the tennis community which is the best racket on the market...