Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many flies would alight on it. In 1944, General Eisenhower bet ?5 that his troops would reach the German border by Christmas-but lost. Al Capone, a madman at gambling, drew the line only at the stock market. Said he: "It's a racket...
...days aboard and 15-day intervals ashore, TT-4's crews learned to live with its continual sway and shake-for the tower was designed to give with the stress of wind and wave. The men also learned to put up with the constant, ear-banging racket of water slapping against resounding steel plate, the whine of generators, the mournful complaint of one of the largest and loudest foghorns in the world. But the food was good, and there was time for recreation. Men fished for cod, killed time in the tower's hobby shops, and played pool...
...headlines belonged to the emotional antics of the pair of challenging Italians, Orlando Sirola and Nicola Pietrangeli, who had knocked out the U.S. team. Then onto the court for Australia walked a pair of lefthanders who never weep and never giggle, shudder at the idea of throwing a racket or a tantrum. All Neale Fraser, 27, and Rod ("Rocket") Laver, 22, ever seem to do is win-and last week they defended the Davis Cup with a brand of tennis that has become indisputably the best in the amateur world...
Desperate Racket. Against the Italians last week, Fraser and Laver were devastating. In the opening singles match, Fraser blasted the bravely grinning Sirola off the court. 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. Next, Laver deftly whizzed shots past the desperate racket of Pietrangeli to win as he pleased, 8-6, 6-4, 6-3. The following day, Fraser and slick Roy Emerson, 24, won the third and deciding match by briskly disposing of the Italians in the doubles. 10-8, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4. By the third day, the Aussies had routed the Italians four matches...
From Australia last week, terrible-tempered Butch Buchholz, 20, and Barry MacKay, 25, dealt another blow to U.S. amateur tennis. Having barely finished throwing the last racket, raising the last locker-room rumpus and blowing the last match to the Italians in the Davis Cup eliminations (TIME, Dec. 26), Buchholz and MacKay announced that they were fed up with the "hypocrisy" of amateur tennis and were turning...