Word: blackjacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started shortly after 7 on Friday morning as smoke drifted through the glittering casino on the first floor of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Within minutes the world's largest gambling hall-a 140-yard stretch of roulette, blackjack and dice tables and 1,000 slot machines-was engulfed in flames. The fire raced through the entire ground floor of the 2,076-room hotel, one of the largest in the world, destroying two cavernous, 1,000-seat showrooms, an arcade of 40 shops, and five restaurants. "Flames were shooting out the entrance," recalls Theresa Ricky...
...Skinner and bad memories can only excuse so much--Ryan waits 20 years and then goes back to the dentist's office, and beats the shit out of him with a blackjack. Normal guys don't do this, but punks do, the sort of people who rob for thrills, not money. "One day me and this guy...got us a couple of guns and we walked into a bank and we held it up... We couldn't believe how easy it was. And how good it made you feel. It's like they say about heroin. It's never...
...Crimson mentor Joe Bernal stated yesterday, "We needed to shave to beat Indiana, and I have no regrets about that decision." Perhaps Bernal overestimated Harvard's ability to rebound from this first shave, but that was a gamble, perhaps well-taken. And as any confirmed blackjack player will tell you, the high-risk, well-planned strategy is the only one to take...