Word: blackjacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this "slotline" club, Duclos ^ took out a $30,000 second mortgage on his home. His initial designs did not catch on, and the early years were lean. Unwilling to give up his new ambition and go back to engineering, Duclos helped support himself for a while by playing blackjack in Nevada...
...company began an in-house probe and fired a second trader, who had allegedly failed to disclose investments and lost $10 million. Meanwhile, colleagues began looking for hints in Rubin's background about why he took such a plunge. According to one account, the trader had been a devoted blackjack player before his business-school days...
...Runnin' Rebel of 1980, Flintie Ray Williams has worked his way up in the years since, from blackjack dealer to pit boss at the Golden Nugget. "It's not a hard profession to break into," he explains. "All you have to do is count to 21." Among Williams' old college playmates, Eddie Owens is dealing at Caesars Palace and Sam Smith is valeting cars. Williams is quick to add that "at a hundred and a half a night, a lot of people would park cars. You can be a porter in this town and make...
...disco, "the night of the year." On the mezzanine, gamblers were already crowding into the posh casino. Through the large picture windows they could see the pounding surf and a clear blue afternoon sky that seemed to bode well. As bettors hunched forward for yet another round of blackjack and croupiers gave the roulette wheels an added spin, there came a whisper: "Smoke." Nobody paid any attention...
...Bathers near the pool where other survivors landed fled from the spray of shards. Many huddling near the casino's closed door, apparently unable to pry it open, died of smoke inhalation. Others farther inside perished immediately; rescue workers found their charred corpses sitting upright in chairs around the blackjack tables. The terror did not end on the mezzanine. Smoke poured out of the lower floors and wrapped the 22-story building in a dense cloak. On the twelfth floor, Nancy Brensson, 12, of Cresskill, N.J., was watching a rerun of The Carol Burnett Show while her mother was taking...