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...only be excited by a man who despises me." All the pros were anxious and depressed; no fewer than 15 had tried suicide, many of them several times; one succeeded on the sixth try. Of the six he analyzed, Dr. Greenwald could report proudly that five quit the racket (though that was not their aim in seeking therapy, but relief from anxiety and depression). Some got married, others went into legitimate businesses...
...stadium when a linesman's call went the wrong way. He snarled at a slow-moving ball boy, gulped a handful of salt tablets, and finally took out his explosive anger on Hoad. His blistering serves kicked too high and hard to be handled. He got his racket up to almost all of Lew's astonishing stop volleys, and somehow he kept up the incredible pressure until he won the wearing marathon...
...Central Junior High (64% Negro), teachers patrol the lavatories during class breaks to prevent gang attacks, often frisk the pupils for switchblades and razors. Favorite weapon: a beer-can opener with honed edges. One boy at Central Junior was transferred to another school, his teacher reported, "because the extortion racket and fear were just about to produce a nervous breakdown...
Dirty Wash. The racket worked for decades in such points of entry as New York and Boston. But it flourished best in San Francisco, where noncitizens, when pressed to prove U.S. citizenship,* could insist that their birth certificates and other papers had been lost in the great earthquake of 1906. Old Huey Bing Dai, haled before federal authorities on an anonymous tip, confessed that he alone was responsible for 57 such fraudulent entries into the U.S. Along with others, he had arranged slots for more than 250 men of his clan who had lived in the Cantonese village...
...clock one of us rose and proposed that the senior member open the Assembly proceedings. The "senior" was an SR Deputy, S. P. Shvetsov. He mounted the stage, accompanied by a bestial racket from the left that was to continue for hours. Mingled with the shouts and whistles were howls and yells, stamping of feet and pounding on desktops. The galleries, jammed with members of the Bolshevik party, added to the appalling...