Word: blackjack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bludgeon murder of a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl, eleven of the arresting detectives were given $50 bonds by a grateful neighborhood association. Few, including the jury, paid any attention to Williams' claim that his confession came after he had been beaten with "a blackjack, a rubber hose and a club" and burned with "lighted cigarettes and cigars." Sentenced to death, Williams was held in jail for 16 years before a federal court of appeals ruled that his confession had been coerced. Since then he has been fighting to recover damages for his years of imprisonment. (He once came...
...Meeting Princeton comes just at the wrong time for us." Restic said. Harvard's coach understates the case. Injuries have plagued the Crimson interior and just to get five relatively healthy bodies to start Restic has had to do more shuffling than a Las Veges blackjack dealer...
...started designing the locks in January," Intravia said. Tom Lyndon and Wes Grandmont, two of the other inventors were looking for a problem to solve and started trying to develop systems for winning blackjack and roulette...
...does conspicuous Lib lip service, especially on the issue of legalized abortion, though the guffaws of pregnancy jokes continue to echo from other pages. But other questions seem to trouble Playboy readers-and the editor who selects which letters to print-far more. How much does one tip a blackjack dealer? What is malmsey wine? How does a fellow get-and get rid of-the crabs? Why do Japanese girls think American men smell bad? (Answer: carnivorous Americans eat ten times as much meat as Japanese and their odors prove...
Helfand claims that he never assaulted an officer. "A cop jumped me from behind and then hit me over the head with a blackjack," Helfand said yesterday. "I never saw him and I'm not really sure what happened. I'm definitely going to plead 'not guilty'," he added...