Word: racketeering
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...acquiesced and moved into the corner room, bewildered by this woman and her racket-wielding son who were intent on establishing our room's physical and social organization...
...next day, I returned to the suite after a morning of exploring the Square to find a kid with a Fila T-shirt madly swinging a tennis racket in our common room...
...sure what to make of him. By the way he was swinging his racket I was convinced he was some tennis star, the next Michael Chang. That's what you were supposed to come across at Harvard, anyway...
...display of government-in-action, offering days of suspenseful viewing. But the war may have been little more than a public relations effort on the part of the IRS. Think about it: 20% of federal spending goes to defense, for which a more appropriate term is protection. No protection racket has ever worked without some kind of a credible threat. Isn't it true that as soon as Saddam Hussein was beaten back and the U.S.S.R. became the pitifully hungry C.I.S., the Pentagon produced a new list of international bullies...
Such talk raises hackles among the victims and victors of World War II who fear a resurgence of Teutonic arrogance. When former British Cabinet minister Nicholas Ridley in 1990 called the E.C. "a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe," the cry of "Hear, hear" rose across Britain. Ridley's views cost him his job, but he has gained some converts. "I am beginning to think that Nicholas Ridley was on to something," wrote Financial Times columnist John Willman, who considers himself pro-German. "Two disastrous attempts to establish German hegemony over Europe earlier in the century...