Word: blackjacking
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...America's owners, Venture Cruise Lines Inc., offered some cabins for $149, nearly $100 cheaper than its competitors, the company advertised facilities "as complete and luxurious as any cruise costing two and three times the price." Among the amenities were bars, a discotheque and a casino with blackjack tables, roulette wheels and slot machines...
...seesawing; it was the first time I had read precincts with professional politicians: and these professional politicians understood the game. It was downstate (Republican) versus Cook County (Democratic). and the bosses, holding back totals from key precincts, were playing out their concealed cards as in a giant game of blackjack. There was nothing anyone could do in Hyannisport except hope that Boss Daley of Chicago could do it for them. Daley was a master at this kind of election-night blackjack game. So were the men I was with in the back room-all of them tense until...
...gaming room looked like clean-cut students on summer vacation and were prone to say such things as "Gee, I'm sorry you lost." The losers, too, were more casual than the average out-of-luck gambler. All they were risking so boldly at craps, roulette, baccarat and blackjack was play money-$250,000 of it-provided by the casino for a test run in preparation for the scheduled opening this weekend of the Resorts International Casino, the first of Atlantic City's newly legalized gambling palaces...
Though it occurred only about 15 years ago, the Great Train Robbery belongs to another age. In accordance with longstanding though sadly eroding British tradition, the gang did not use firearms. Their basic field weapon was the cosh or blackjack. For other occasions the arsenal included ax handles, umbrellas reinforced with iron rods, and a gadget that would spray a blinding cloud of flour and pepper from compressed air cylinders...
...grabbed him by the legs and then leaped on him, gripping him around the neck with one arm and threatening him with a blackjack in the other. "If you make a noise, son, you're f--dead," he said...