Word: raked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their main business is extortion. Prying protection money from taxi drivers, prostitutes, shopkeepers, housewives and small schoolchildren alike, they rake in as much as $350,000 a month. Cambridge-educated Lee Kuan Yew, becoming independent Singapore's first Prime Minister last June, set out on a crime cleanup, but even so, all forms of lawlessness have increased in Singapore this year, and already there have been 55 murders, v. 38 all last year. A month ago, when Triad hoodlums kidnaped Chinese Millionaire Chia Yee Soh and got a fat ransom for his return, Lee and his Cabinet declared...
...speak, either florists or deflorists. His bent was clear, and when his mother enrolled him in a seminary, he was quickly expelled. The second volume of the Putnam edition (the first was issued last spring, and four more will appear at half-year intervals) takes up the rake's progress when he is 23. Casanova has joined a runaway beauty named Henriette, set her up in a lavish apartment in Parma. In three months, he remarks mildly, "the only pleasure we took out of doors was a drive outside of the city when the weather was fine...
...biggest and most powerful labor union: James Riddle Hoffa's Teamster Brotherhood (TIME, Aug. 31). in which he is president of Teamster Local 777 (taxi drivers) and boss of the Teamster joint council of Chicago. He has made crime pay exceedingly well. The Chicago Crime Commission estimated his rake-in from all sources-union salaries, business profits, kickbacks, extortion payoffs-at $70,000 a month...
...store-front espresso halls, is to be holy, man, holy. But last week, the mendicants of marijuana and mad verse were in the somewhat embarrassing position of monks whose liqueur sells too well. Tourists were snapping up their stuff like Chinese back-scratchers, and the beatniks were starting to rake in the dough...
...David Slater, the rake from upstairs with a weakness for "steak, liquor, and sex--in that order," Frederick Morehouse is at his best with a sarcastic line or a subtle piece of business. When he orders his steak ("blood rare") or mixes a martini he brings the house down. However, his voice frequently becomes strident in an attempt to capture the English accent and he underplays perhaps too much...