Word: jackpot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hubris, Spielberg has imposed his high-tech humanity on the myths of another age. The Sherlock Holmes stories, the embodiment of understated, subtle Victorian British refinement, come at us with all the sophistication of an Indiana Jones bullwhip in Young Sherlock Holmes, which is guaranteed to hit the jackpot this Christmas season...
Caesars Hotel-Casino in Atlantic City hit the jackpot when Brian Molony became a regular customer. In 1981 and '82, the assistant bank manager from Toronto gambled away more than $7 million at its tables. Molony bet as much as $75,000 a hand at baccarat, and in two very bad days in April 1982, he lost $2 million. To keep this high roller hooked, Caesars plied him with complimentary hotel accommodations and a private jet shuttle between Toronto and Atlantic City, as well as an $8,500 Rolex watch. The casino discovered belatedly that he had financed his bets...
Unfortunately for Harvard (3-1), one of Adelphi's shots had hit the jackpot...
...share. Celso Manuel Garcete, the Paraguayan who had picked the numbers at random, said it all for the group: "I'm a little nervous, surprised, excited. It's a very big change." What more was there to say? By equally splitting their almost $13.7 million share of the jackpot, they will each receive 21 annual after-tax payments of about $24,000, starting this year. As the winners contemplated new houses and cars and college tuition for their children, even the losers--and there were a lot of them--seemed to agree: it could not have happened to a nicer...
Such was the unexpectedly heart-warming climax to a thoroughly manic chase after the biggest prize ever offered in the U.S. The award had swollen to epic size because no winner had been declared in seven successive plays of New York's Lotto 48 game. As the jackpot climbed first to $23 million, then $33.5 million and finally to its peak, serpentine lines of ticket buyers formed all over the state, each person shelling out $1 for each chance to choose two sets of six numbers. In Manhattan the queues were so long and contained such a variety of people...