Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a desperate gambler, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy was doubling his bet every time he took a loss. Shaken up by angry rebuttals from his victims, McCarthy reached deep and produced the most tremendous sensation yet. He would name a man "now connected" with the State Department who was "the top Russian espionage agent" in the U.S. Said McCarthy: "This man I'm talking about was Hiss's onetime boss in the espionage ring. He has a desk in the State Department and has access to the files-or at least he had until four...
...Manhattan, Actor-Radio Commentator Robert Montgomery petitioned the court to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Gambler Frank Costello, charging he had obtained it fraudulently. "A cheap hammy stunt for publicity," Costello retorted. "The claims of my vast wealth and income are pure fiction. I am a man . . . with a modest income, and I live conservatively but comfortably...
...shifty-eyed gambler who walked into Publisher Sevellon Brown's Providence papers last September had a frontpage story to spill. Pasquale Borino wanted to fill in the Journal and Evening Bulletin on a mob which he said was running the lottery, sweepstakes, race-track and baseball-pool rackets in Rhode Island. But when Bulletin City Editor Leo Son-deregger tried to track down Borino's leads, he found they cut across state lines and involved shadowy national figures...
...after 17 spectacular years in the Texas oilfields, he looks like nothing so much as a Hollywood version of a Mississippi River gambler-a moody and monolithic male with a dark, Civil War mustache, a cold and acquisitive eye, and a brawler's shoulder-swinging walk. He affects dark glasses, wears a diamond ring as big as a dime on one rocklike fist, and on the flat Texas highways drives his royal blue Cadillac at 100 m.p.h., often with a whiskey bottle at his side. He likes to shoot craps at $1,000 a throw, and has a longshoreman...
McCarthy, a gambler by instinct, gives no sign of doubt. He still lives like a burning roman candle; in times of stress or excitement he goes without sleep or food, drinks steadily for days on end without a tremor of unsteadiness. Even in normal period he often awakens, apparently fresh, after only a few hours of sleep, tosses off vodka and tomato juice (a combination which he believes does not taint the breath), reads leases or studies maps and impatiently awaits the new dawn...