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Word: racket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Campbell exposed the prostitution racket and its City Hall connections, racketeers lured him from a barroom and gave him a terrific beating. With his ribs broken and his lungs punctured, Campbell went to Tucson to recuperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Present for the Boss | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...singularly appropriate because the proprietress, Madame Rose (Francoise Rosay), herself dabbles in stolen baubles. The Hotel Bijon isn't exactly the Waldorf of Paris--as a matter of fact, its dusty brick walls conceal quite a bit of shady activity. Daytime scenes are taken up with the stolen goods racket. I suspect the Boston censors have flourished their knives at the nighttime scenes, but not so much that the results unduly tax the imagination...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/28/1949 | See Source »

...Some sharp-eyed observation of the rotten underside of the fight racket; with Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...they streamed toward the green lawns of the capital's Parque Nacional. The crowd-some 180,000 strong-was the biggest Bogotá (pop. 400,000) had ever seen. At 1:05 p.m., the hour of their martyr's death, screaming horns and sirens made a louder racket than any New Year's celebration the city had ever heard. There was no violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Anniversary | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...copy of the Morning Telegraph and then they buy a 50 cent "hot tip" card. After they pore over these for half an hour, they stick a pin into their programs and rush down to the window to slap two bucks on a nag that's in the race racket because it's too old to pull a milk wagon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Players Pack Lincoln Downs | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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