Word: rigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relatives, dubbed his enterprise the Bonanza Oil Co., in five years leased some 16,000 acres. Then he started drilling near Worland. Recalls Ziegler: "Many is the time I've seen Isabella go to sleep in the dog house [the steel shack at the base of the rig] with the drill pumping away, her all bundled up in a sleeping bag to keep from freezing. I've seen it so cold that a wrench dropped on the floor of the rig would freeze there and have to be knocked loose with a crowbar...
...performance that the Navy could not come near matching with its present equipment. The target data was presented on an easy-to-read radar-like screen, and the new sonar rig also operated best just where the Navy's bulky, complicated equipment is weakest-the tricky, close-range job of picking up mines and submarine nets, or charting underwater obstructions...
Enamored of politics, he began affecting frock coats in order to look like a politico. He poured out $1,500,000 in an unsuccessful try for the 1904 Democratic nomination for President. Next year he actually won the New York mayoralty in a bloody election, only to see Tammany rig the count and cheat him out of his victory. In 1906, he was defeated by Charles Evans Hughes for the governorship of New York. In 1922, still nursing a political ambition that reached all the way to the White House, he made his last cast for office, began a campaign...
...this was clear to a man named Bekbayev, director of the Kazakhstan Institute of Physical Culture. He summoned the Alma Ata captain to his box by loudspeaker and ordered him to let the opposing team score two goals. Unlike fixers in acquisitive societies, such as people who rig games in Madison Square Garden, he did not offer the players money. Said Bekbayev, as Moscow's Pravda reported the incident last week: "Isn't it a clever combination I thought up?" Nevertheless, "the Kazakhstan athletes determinedly rejected Bekbayev's proposal. They continued to strive for first place honestly...
...when District Attorney Frank Hogan gathered in two more Long Island University stars, Nathan Miller and Lou Lipman. During the 1948-49 season, said Hogan, these two, plus the ubiquitous Ed Gard (TIME, Feb. 26) and two other L.I.U. players identified as "X" and "Y," made a deal to rig the L.I.U.-Duquesne game. The players decided to ask for $5,000-$1 ,000 apiece. But after the game, four of them held a little powwow without "X." "The boys," said Hogan, "were working out a cute one on 'X' ": Gard, Miller, Lipman and "Y" were to take...