Word: jackpot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advised to take aim at the threatening convicts?"but you'll have to have hostile action by the inmates to fire." Then the two helicopters, loaded with tear-gas canisters, swept low over the prison, one of them barely clearing the walls. "To all posts," barked the command radio. "Jackpot One is about to make drop." There was a pause. "Jackpot has made drop. Base to all posts ?move in; launch the offensive...
...What really pissed me off is this girl who called at 6 a.m. and guessed Paul Revere," Baskanskas said. "What business does she have calling up at six in the morning with an answer like that?" After two more persons guessed incorrectly, Baskauskas finally hit the jackpot...
...knew all the angles but had personally played a few of the wider ones. Casey, 58, is a law partner of former G.O.P. Chairman Leonard Hall and describes himself as "an investor for venture capital." He frequently buys into little-known companies or products in hopes of hitting the jackpot. To judge by his self-estimated annual income of $250,000, he has come out on the winning side more often than...
...Jimmy Conzelman, 72, pianist, actor, author, raconteur, but most of all one of pro football's earliest and best-loved coaches, who stunned the sports world by guiding the underdog Cardinals, then of Chicago, to a championship in 1947, the first and only time they have hit the jackpot during 36 years in the National Football League; in St. Louis...
...sounded like a supermarket sweepstakes, the jackpot being $20,000 a year, $260 a month toward the rent and use of a credit card. But California's Republican Senator George Murphy did not have to fill in a lucky coupon, much less tell why he liked a detergent. Technicolor, Inc., his old employer, was content merely that he serve as its public relations consultant after he went to the Senate five years...