Word: racketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...papers carry ads, and the International Labor Press Association keeps a close watch on those that do particularly those that may succumb to an old labor press racket of shaking down businessmen for hefty contributions in the form of phony ads. As one safeguard, the I.L.P.A. demands that ads be confined to goods and services within reach of the papers' readers Over the last decade the I.L.P.A. has expelled 16 papers for improper advertising: a jewelers' union paper, for example, which ran ads for yachts and steamship boilers. It has also effectively ended another racket in which...
...steaming vats of the city's 2,608 sento or public bathhouses. There Suzuki-san discusses the besuboru pennant race, and his wife, behind a flimsy partition (a late 19th century concession to Occidental prudery), catches up on the neighborhood gossip. The kids make the usual deafening racket but, as one sento enthusiast puts it knowingly, "When everybody is naked, camaraderie just naturally follows...
...days, the leaping, pirouetting Chinese ground down their opponents with savage smashes and infuriating chops that sent the ball spinning crazily off the table. The frustrated Russians complained bitterly-and futilely-that their comrades were serving illegally, rolling the ball against the racket instead of hitting it in the air. At times, it seemed more like an exhibition than a competition, as the Chinese took the men's and women's team championships, plus five of seven individual titles...
...Denver suburb of Greenwood Village (pop. 600), a grand jury has indicted two top officials for running what may be the most brazen traffic-fine racket in the U.S. For six years, charged the jury, Greenwood Village used the public highways as a "personal toll road" that raked in $100,000 for the town by means of "a court scheme that was a sham, a mockery, a fraud and simply a system to exact tribute from unsuspecting motorists...
...Cambridge Councillor proposed that all money collected by the University from tickets be turned over to the City. "That's going to be a good question for the next Counsel meeting," he pledged to his audience. "Harvard's got a little racket going...