Word: blackjacking
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...Score. Military Government offi cials hoped that the democratic press could weather the economic war, but the battles would be bitter. The nationalists had banded together into a new press association and raised a war chest, to wage the fight. A majority of the former Nazis had another blackjack in their pockets. Though they had not been allowed to publish, the occupation authorities had not taken away their ownership of the presses on which most of the licensed papers were printed under five-year leases. Democratic publishers feared that the new publishers could break the leases and force them...
Office workers found the detonating wires still lying on the floor, along with several Blackjack chewing gum wrappers. It was deduced that the gum was used to tamp the explosive into holes drilled in the safe door. The police found finger prints all over the place, but no one was over apprehended for the robbery...
Ordinarily, the Statute of Limitations prevents prosecution for a crime six years after it is perpetrated, but the hitch is that the Statute doesn't "run" for time spent outside the state. His Majesty, now in retirement in British Columbia, might yet end his days sticking wads of Blackjack under a cot in Charlestown State Prison...
...died in the hospital. Although the coroner ruled that Mrs. Cardy's death was not caused by strike violence, the Town Council was taking no chances. They called in the Ontario provincial police to help halt the daily mix-up between strikers and nonstrikers. The provincials seized a blackjack from one worker. Two policemen were stabbed with women's hatpins. Children on the sidelines threw stone-filled snowballs...
Whiplash (Warner). The hero of this gory battle royal (Dane Clark) gets tagged on the jaw, slugged with a blackjack, kicked in the head and punched orie-eyed in a boxing bout. Since most of this mauling is done by thugs who work for the husband of his beautiful, frozen-faced girl (Alexis Smith), poor dear Dane suffers without a whimper. Toward the end, there is some talk of sending him off to a hospital to have his head examined-an idea which might have saved a lot of trouble earlier in the story...