Word: blackjacking
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With finer imagery than that of the better-known "Mountaineer Poet," Jesse Stuart, Still makes his child's world as bright as a new dime. It was not a world in which dimes were common. On the barren slope above Blackjack Mine, Bracky Baldridge owned a garden patch, a shack with puncheon floors, a black birch tree. When the mines along the creek closed one March, Bracky's no-good cousins, Harl and Tibb Logan, came to live with the Baldridges. The dried beans ran out fast. Then soft, lazy Uncle Samp came and stayed, his thin grey...
Senator Pittman's blackjack was potent. The harassed Senate compromised by voting back the 1937 silver price for domestic silver, barring further purchases of foreign silver (from China and Mexico). More surprising, it gave Senator Glass his victory, voted 47-to-31 to end the President's power to pare the dollar. But it gave new life to the stabilization fund, essential for U. S. participation in steadying foreign exchange with England and France...
...Yale and Harvard Law School in the fuzzy role which Secretaries of State occupied during years when U. S. foreign policy consisted of having almost no policy. Secretary Stimson, rigid legalist that he is, in fact had a policy. When Japan in 1931 revived undeclared war as an international blackjack, he proposed to resist aggressors by all peaceful means. But in a war-shy, depression-hit world, Britain's statesmen would not back him up. He could do little more in public than denounce treaty-smashers as pungently as diplomatic usage permitted. Before leaving office he visited Franklin Roosevelt...
Another account: Billy Patterson was a beloved Manhattan barkeep of the 1880s, who was felled one night as he left the Star and Garter's side door, by an unknown dastard with a blackjack...
...other thing to get straight is the talk about me leaving Kentucky by being driven out because I was hit with a blackjack! I'm not leaving Kentucky until I get good and ready to go. Kentucky is my home. I love Kentucky. I was born here. I've lived here among these hills in W-Hollow nearly all my life-with the exception of the years I spent in Tennessee in college and a year abroad. Despite the fact I've been sued for $75,000 I owe a lot of people in Greenup County...