Word: racket
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...played up his findings in a six-part series last month on "the Southwest's culture and crime center." It contained little that was new. But by the old newspaper trick of totaling up past gangster shootings and policy wars, Lowall gave the impression that Dallas was a racket-ridden city. His scary conclusion: "A hellbroth of mobster violence and derision for the law is seething" in Dallas and may "boil oyer any time...
...Harry Wismer sportscast on station KECA were startled when a fierce masculine voice suddenly broke in: "I interrupt this program to bring you a special message. I am the recording engineer making this transcription and I am using this means as a last resort to expose a vicious KECA racket...
...rate was under 10%. ¶ Workers with poor hearing (whether they know it or not) are emotionally upset. Instead of becoming dulled to noise, they become super-sensitive to it. Said one chipper: "When I go home I want peace & quiet more than food. If my kids make a racket, I feel like whipping 'em right away." Hargrave, who wears an inconspicuous hearing aid, believes that much ear damage could be prevented if workers on noisy jobs would wear plastic ear plugs...
...second time in a year, gangsters dynamited the $100.000 Brentwood, Calif, villa of Hollywood Mobster Mickey Cohen, 38. Mickey and his wife, LaVonne, who were asleep in another room at the time, were unhurt. But the neighbors were getting a little peevish over all the racket made by Mickey's playmates...
...Racket & Revolver. Reverdy was a normally mischievous boy who learned to swear and smoke and pilfer, but his mother did her best to counteract the effects of poverty and slums by encouraging her son in the religious life. When he finally decided to become a minister after graduating from Wilberforce University, she was delighted. But his farmer father exclaimed: "You're a fool to spend your life going through the world making your living off the damned niggers...