Word: underworld
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...grow so big and rigid, corrupt and powerful that they crush and entrap the builders. Whether it is bigness or power spawned by bigness that corrupts, big labor can scarcely deny Dos Passos' damning indictment of the "denial of the working man's most elementary rights, the underworld's encroachment on the world of daily bread, sluggings, shootings, embezzlement, thievery, gangups between employers and business agents, the shakedown, the syndicate, oppression, sabotage, terror...
...Angie the Ox, the Lemon Drop Kid and Meyer Marmalade, he had largely consulted his own imagination. But last week, when Senator Estes Kefauver's antimonopoly subcommittee opened hearings in Washington on the fight racket, the characters who took the stand to describe the octopus grip of the underworld on U.S. boxing were pure Runyon-but Runyon without romance...
...migrant to the city is lucky enough to get a factory job, he is likely to find factory discipline Irksome and pointless.... Away from work he is more often than not herded into a wretched slum and exploited by the large, permanent underworld of beggars, vagrants, refugees, petty criminals and the like who manage some-how to survive on the fringe economies of the cities of the underdeveloped world...
JOHN C. BENNETT, dean of the faculty at Union Theological Seminary: There exists a "Protestant underworld that stirs up undisguised hatred of Catholics. What kind of a country do these Protestants want-a country in which 40 million citizens feel that they are outsiders...
...favorite haunts: no more nights at the Tanjong Rhu club over cool drinks and mah-jongg, no more rides home on a quiet road where moonlight filters through acacia and tulip trees. To protect themselves, some millionaires, like the movie-mogul Shaw brothers, reportedly pay regular tribute to the underworld. Others have bought barbed wire and snarling watchdogs. A few take the precaution of calling ahead to their destination whenever they go out, and if they fail to arrive on time, an alarm is sounded...