Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cards. Twice a month, I took my place among this vulgar spectacle to try my luck at Seven Card Stud or Texas Hold'em. My first few visits were far from pretty; not just a slow bleed of cash, more like an agonizing, gushing laceration. Soon I got the hang of things, the hand signals, the lingo, and before long I was turning a sizable profit. The first night that I returned home with a crisp Ben Franklin in my wallet, I knew that I was a casino man, a high roller...
...still looking at recruiting, but soccer is my bag, and I'm not ready to hang up the boots," McLaughlin said...
...services, according to the first witness to arrive on the scene of the princess's car crash last August. Eric Petel, who has only now been interviewed by investigators, says he rushed to a phone as soon as he came across the crushed Mercedes -- only to have the operator hang up on him. The operator "thought it was a joke and said 'we have no time for fun... this is an emergency number,'" Petel told Voici magazine Tuesday. Worse was to come when Petel took his story to the police station: He was handcuffed and held for three hours...
...public policy schools at California's Pepperdine University. The chair Starr had set his sights on, as it happened, was endowed by a certain Richard Mellon Scaife, an archconservative Pennsylvania billionaire who also happens to publish the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Tribune-Review, a newspaper whose star reporter, Christopher Ruddy (hang in there; this pays off) is notorious for his own conspiracy theories concerning the death of Clinton officials Vincent Foster and Ron Brown. Interestingly, Scaife's billions have also bankrolled the American Spectator, the magazine that broke the Troopergate story--the same one that first identified a certain Paula...
When the Broncos take the field against the Green Bay Packers, there will be more at stake than Denver's first Super Bowl win in five tries. The fate of a new stadium, whose financing depends on ballot approval of a sales-tax extension, could hang in the balance. In early 1997, polls showed community sentiment running strongly against a publicly financed new home for the BRONCOS. But now, in the euphoria of a 12-4 season record and three play-off wins, Denverites seem ready and willing to tax themselves for the even greater glory of their gridders...