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Word: blackjacked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the strikers came into the front yard, I and some of my friends advanced to meet them. We had a short but quite violent fight. No shots were fired, but clubs were used on both sides. I had my blackjack. The Communists were repelled, and withdrew, leaving one badly beaten man on the ground. I picked him up, patched him up, gave him a drink, and sent him home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pistol-Packing Padre | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Next to blondes, gentlemen prefer poker. Blackjack, learnedly classified as "vingt-et-un," is a low born associate of spinning ivories on khaki blankets, and is favored only by those majoring in R.O.T.C. The advent of General Education has definitely entrenched the five card classic, with numerous aberrations localized somewhat to the bank of the Charles...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...spoke too soon.The Communists were back, and with them the grey uniformed police, rifles at the ready. One Freedom Party man who attempted to defend himself from a renewed attack by a blackjack-wielding Communist was promptly arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Munk | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Bloody Action. But NHA cried: "Houses are more important than autos!" Down clonked the Wyatt blackjack on Tucker and WAA. To WAA went a "directive" ordering it to comply with NHA wishes. (WAA appealed the order to Attorney General Tom Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Clonk | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

When NHA asked RFC to lend Lustron $32 million, RFC also balked. RFC said that Lustron was putting up too little of its own cash. Promptly Wilson Wyatt twirled his blackjack again. He threatened to lay into RFC with another "directive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Clonk | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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