Uproars

Usage examples of rackets.

By the mid-twenties both Joe and Ray, as well as many other Purples, were spending as much time working their own individual rackets as they did with the Oakland Sugar House business.

A line to a conclusion: the Nite Owl killings were semiprofessional at least, an attempt to take over the heroin and pornography rackets of Pierce Patchett.

The Purple Gang graduated from juvenile delinquents to mobsters with the rackets that new liquor laws inspired.

Prohibition gave mobsters financial leverage for legitimate business ownership, spawned rackets to provide people with alchohol and corrupted every level of Government.

Thaxter came to Zarathustra ten years earlier, he had tooled around with some small-time rackets, set up some crooked labor unions and a couple of marketing cooperatives to put the squeeze on planters.

The old time bootleggers and rumrunners had gone into legitimate businesses or gotten into other rackets.

From a radio studio in the LaSalle Hotel, Buckley had been speaking out against gambling and other rackets.

Chock told Wayne County Prosecutor James Chenot that Buckley used his position in radio to muscle in on rackets.

Here were all these weekend mountaineers, solid nine-to-five types with a yen to cut loose, bugging off for distant campsites with cars full of hot dogs and charcoal and badminton rackets.

The Mick also ran bookmaking, loansharking, gambling, prostitution and dope rackets and killed an average of a dozen people a year.

And I'll go on the record as a Democrat and a determined crimefighter with credentials including work for the McClellan Senate Rackets Committee: you can be both a moderate liberal and a foe of crime, as my good friend Senator John Kennedy proved by his work for the Committee.

There were dark stories about murders, smuggling of contraband, secret deals with Cardassia and Romulus, armed robberies, protection rackets, and some devious schemes that even Pindog was unwilling to discuss.

They also ran simple protection rackets and badger games when things were quiet, but even then they usually had enough sense not to get involved with the Families, suggesting that someone must have laid out a small fortune to set this up.

By the time he had reached the house, there she stood, holding up the badminton rackets and the shuttles.

Joan with her physics books and her golf clubs and her badminton rackets and her breathy voice.