Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city's rackets (see PRESS) : Mayor Terry D. Schrunk, 44, longtime (1949-56) Democratic county sheriff until he won the top job with Teamsters' backing last fall. The charges: 1) accepting, while still sheriff, a bribe "in amount unknown" (commonly put at $500) from Teamster-linked Gambler Clifford Bennett during a raid on Bennett's after-hours joint in 1955, and 2) perjury before the grand jury by denying he took the bribe. Testifying before the McClellan committee, Schrunk had also denied the bribery charge despite sworn testimony by eyewitnesses, demanded a lie-detector test, stalked...
...last week's Cavalleria, from the moment Tucker's fervent and sensuous voice sounded offstage in Turiddu's precurtain love song, the audience was his. Dressed in a tinhorn gambler's dark shirt and the cheap Sunday suit of a Sicilian villager, Tucker swaggered about the stage in response to broken pleas from Santuzza (well sung by Veteran Zinka Milanov). He powerfully thundered forth his challenge to Alfio, husband of his mistress, and in the final great aria movingly sang his farewell to his mother, the sure delicacy of his voice topped off by his rough...
...Portland's Democratic Mayor Terry Schrunk, elected with Teamster help, had agreed to take a lie-detector test to help him refute testimony that he had, as sheriff of Multnomah County, taken a $500 bribe from a gambler. But when he went to take the test, Schrunk objected to six questions (e.g., "While sheriff, did you receive any payoffs from any gamblers?"), stalked out. Later he told the committee: "Apparently they were aimed at trying to make me flunk the test...
Frog-voiced Gambler Frank Costello...
...increase in deaths throughout its thousands of classifications. When it finds such an increase, the odds-and the premiums-change accordingly. Its actuarial department alone employs 1,000 mathematicians whose job translating the death odds into dollars and cents is so complex that it would put a Las Vegas gambler to shame. Sample question for an actuary's exam: "What is the probability of throwing exactly nine heads exactly twice in five throws of ten true coins...