Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schelling believes that "a good many economic and business principles that operate in the 'upper-world' must, with suitable modification for change in environment, operate in the underworld as well." Indeed, there is a distinct "typology of underworld business." One major group is black markets, which sell "commodities and services contrary to law," such as dope, abortions and-through scalpers-New York theater tickets. A second is racketeering, which includes extortion and other businesses "based on intimidation...
...house was privately owned before Radcliffe bought it and converted it to a dormitory in 1964-65, and Gates said the former owners of the house had created the heating problem when they added several rooms to the upper floors of the three-story building...
...line of Parrot, Mueller, and Barry Johnson smashed the contest open midway through the second period, scoring three times in the space of one minute. At 8:15, Johnson dropped a pass for Parrot, who slapped the puck into the upper right corner of the cage from 35 feet before goalie Regan Kerney could move...
...Eden at the time of the Sudetenland crisis and found Eden in despair but still unable to make up his mind about what he would do. Nicolson was horrified at Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler, and he gives a vivid picture of the discord it caused among his upper-crust friends. When Chamberlain announced that he was making a second trip to Munich, he noted, "Raymond [Mortimer] rings me up and says, 'Isn't this ghastly?' Eddy [Sackville-West] rings me up and says, 'Isn't this hell?' Margot Oxford rings...
...minutes later, Murphy walloped a 25-foot shot into the upper left corner, with about an inch to spare in each direction. Murphy's goal, which sent the game into overtime, followed a rush and blocked shot by Garrity...