Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East only three minutes apart (the slower Connie first) from Los Angeles International Airport. Now they were due to converge over the same color-drenched desert radio station at the same minute, both flying at exactly the same altitude. When, at 9:15 a.m., T.W.A.'s Captain Jack S. Gandy, 42, asked CAA for permission to fly his Constellation at 21,000 ft. instead of his assigned 19,000 ft., CAA had refused. But CAA granted Captain Gandy permission to fly at 1,000 ft. above the overcast, and when−as he reported−this turned...
...bookie's tote boards if they failed to pay protection money. After holding onto their franchise in the face of attacks by some of the toughest tearaways in The Smoke, the Sabini gang at last gave way to the Black Brothers, who in turn were muscled out by Jack Spot. Born of Polish-Jewish parents in a Whitechapel tenement in 1912, Jack Spot (né Comer) was a shrewd operator with a taste for custom-made silk shirts, big black cigars and 40-guinea suits. It took a fat wad of track-protection money to buy these luxuries...
...years Jack and Billy had a good thing going for them in a variety of rackets. At last, like many another tycoon in the full flush of success, they took to writing their memoirs. Announcing his retirement last year, Billy hired a ghostwriter and turned out a book called Boss of Britain's Underworld. Jack produced a rival series of articles for the Sunday Chronicle, describing in glowing terms his own rise to power. The Jack Spot memoirs hit their high point with the boast that he had mustered an army of 1,000 hoods armed with Sten guns...
Grievous Harm. Last week razors were out again at the entrance to a nightclub off Berkeley Square. This time the cutting scrape involved one Tommy Falco, known to be a close friend of Billy Hill, who was just leaving the club, and−once again−Jack Spot, who, according to Tommy, jumped out at him from a darkened doorway and worked him over. At week's end, fingered by Falco, Jack Spot was in jail on charges of "causing grievous bodily harm," and Scotland Yard breathed slightly easier. "If we can just get Spot sent...
...recent years, under a succession of able ambassadors−Ed Stanton, William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and the late Jack Peurifoy−the U.S. embassy at Bangkok had had perhaps the ablest U.S. staff in Southeast Asia. The embassy is still staffed by men who believe that with proper understanding Thailand's drift can be controlled. But they have been strongly overruled by new U.S. Ambassador Max Waldo Bishop, 47, a truculent, table-pounding career diplomat, who in seven brief months has alienated many responsible Thais, demoralized his own staff and created ill will at SEATO council meetings...