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Word: blackjacked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...cannot stand alone and his speech is slow and slurred. But his detractors charge that this unimpressive man with the nervous simper controls some of the more unattractive operations of Rhee's high-handed administration. They point to his post as honorary chairman of the green-shirted, blackjack-toting Anti-Communist Youth Corps whose members act as the Liberal Party's strong-arm boys. Critics also charge that Lee has long served as the party's go-between for businessmen attempting to obtain government loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TWO NO. 2's | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

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