Word: blackjacking
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...beefy person of hard-boiled Lee Cockrell, onetime stockyard worker and volunteer fireman, who was named chief of the town's three-man police force. Cockrell stopped the hot-rodders all right. He wrote as many as 80 traffic tickets in one day, used his ever-handy blackjack on some fresh guys who talked back. Indeed, some Boydsmen claimed Cockrell had clubbed them without any sort of cause. Perhaps, so:ne townspeople began to think, the hot-rodders had not been so bad after...
After 26 minutes, the jury found Treloar not guilty. The sheriff winked at his pretty wife, accepted congratulations from fellow sheriffs, retrieved his blackjack from the evidence table. Said he: "Now, by God, I can get back to rounding up bootleggers and niggers...
...Nicholas Jenkins, the novel's narrator and a movie scriptwriter (as Powell himself once was), whose humor is a soft blackjack. When Widmerpool asks him what would be a suitable name under which to register for a "clandestine weekend" at a country hotel, Jenkins replies: "Mr. and the Honourable Mrs. Smith...
...Nous the Fallout. The Tom-Lila-Chris axis turns mainly on romanticized undergraduate japes, e.g., a ten-day blackjack game, a 100-mile drive in a stolen milk truck. The trio and their clique habitually see life through one too many cocktail glasses, but the stem of boredom keeps breaking between their fingers. Chris bleeds to death in an auto crash, and Tom and Lila individually reach respectability across the great divide that separates the hipsters from the squares...
...year-old In Ho Oh, onetime interpreter for U.S. troops in Korea, onetime honor student at Seoul's National University and currently enrolled as a University of Pennsylvania political science exchange student. An eleven-member teen-aged Negro gang had pummeled In Ho Oh to death with a blackjack, a lead pipe and hard-toed shoes, while looking for the admission price of a 35? neighborhood dance...