Word: blackjacking
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...like the Vocational Institute at Lancaster where they can learn marketable skills. On the other hand, charges deemed "incorrigible" are sent to the vocational schools where instead of learning carpentry or machine mechanics they hold informal seminars in second-story work or in the most effective employment of the blackjack or bike chain. In effect, the "promising cases" for showing their capacity for cooperation with the Authority are being exploited by it. Their work in the forestry camps is productive in terms of the needs of the state to control and harness California's environment, but the work in terms...
...capper to the series of episodes comes near film's end. An instructor is demonstrating the proper way to dispatch a Cong with the use of a blackjack or the victim's own helmet...
Respectability. At almost any hour of the day there is steady action at the blackjack, baccarat, roulette and craps tables, many of them run by female dealers or croupiers. The players are affluent businessmen from Kuala Lumpur and nearby Singapore, accompanied by wives or mistresses in silk pantsuits. Collectively, they wager an estimated $100,000 every 24 hours. On a visit last month, the Sultan of Selangor put a royal stamp of respectability on the new venture by winning $133 at roulette...
Grating Noise. To officials in Tokyo, those threats seemed too draconian to be believed. A special U.S. tariff lasting until the yen was revalued enough to please Washington would amount to an unprecedented and almost unimaginable action; the U.S. would be attempting to blackjack a friendly nation into fixing a value for its money that Washington in effect would decide. Finance Minister Fukuda dismissed that talk as a zatsuon (grating noise). A Tokyo banker added that the idea of cutting U.S. shipments of raw materials to Japan was "reminiscent of the eve of Pearl Harbor, when the Roosevelt Administration placed...