Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poland's prewar territory restored. But Soviet Russia was not prepared to give back the disputed Polish lands. Perhaps the Poles were again to learn an old and wretched lesson: that in the larger interests between great powers, the smaller nations usually have to take the rap...
...teletypes rap out their spasms of typing in rhythm; in the glass-enclosed room the announcer faces the mike; the newsman is timing his four minutes flat, with a minute commercial; the expert is typing his views of elastic defense; and there sit the bored technicians behind the dials, keeping the pitch of sound in hand, as it goes on the wires to a hundred cities and off the antennae to a hundred million ears. It blats in the taxi, it roars over the public-address system, it speaks in the mess hall, in the midnight coffee stand...
...stocks of holding companies such as Standard Brands, United Corp. and the hapless Alleghany Corp. Though the Federal Reserve authorities were to blame in not clamping down on the excesses of 1929, the Morgan outfit, as the most responsible house on the Street, also had to take the rap...
...them set in a row round the varnished log walls"), Crawford is seen at play in blue-striped pajamas with a statuesque torch singer. In time he acquires a semi-Fascist radio station, is surrounded by more & more sinister henchmen. It becomes Tyler's business to take the rap for Crawford before a Federal grand jury and to be publicly repudiated by the demagogue : "Ah, there was the unkindest cut of all, the stab in the back from a friend...
...belated letter from Brother Glenn, already dead in Spain, almost makes Tyler turn state's evidence. Caught between treachery to himself, to his boss and to the people at large, Tyler jumps wildly off the water wagon. He faces the rap, crying: "We can't sell out on the people, but the trouble is that me, I'm just as much the people as you are or any other son of a bitch. If we want to straighten the people out we've got to start with number one, not that big wind. . . . You know what...