Word: jackpots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Priestley: "Whatever our contemporary age has, America has the most of. It is the jackpot country. If we are safely bound for an earthly paradise, the Americans will be there first. If we are all going to Hell, they will also be there first . . . Now, out of America, looking like a typical clean young American who drinks his orange juice and coffee, eats his cereal and waffles . . . is the bearer of the Word. Salvation has come, as it should, from America . . . Heaven is being promised again by a figure who might easily have a five-year contract with...
...trustees decided to build another monument to the distinguished persecutor of Salem. In a curious reversal of roles, however, the General Court seemingly upheld civil liberties by refusing funds for the enterprise. Lacking any other resource, the crafty trustees held a series of lotteries and, in 1794, hit the jackpot, winning their own ten thousand dollar prize on a redeemed ticket. After this victory of the righteous, there was enought money to build Holworthy as well as Stoughton. In 1805, new Stoughton appeared as a facsimile of Hollis, a mere shadow, robbed even of its distinctive coat of arms...
...really hit the jackpot with your wonderful coverage ... It was no more than S.U.I, richly deserves, but it is nonetheless highly gratifying to see credit given where credit is due. The color pictures were beautiful...
...judge's chambers. Fourteen minutes later, she emerged as a new proof of an American dream story. After six years of marriage (her second), nearly five of separation, sporadic salvos of parting shots, Bobo, blonde, 37, was no longer the wife of Winthrop Rockefeller, 42. Her record settlement jackpot: $2,000,000 in cash, $3,500,000 in trust funds for herself and little Winnie, 5. One of Rockefeller's lawyers beamed at her: "You carried yourself like a trouper." Exulted one of Bobo's own lawyers: "It's wonderful . . . No hard feelings. No recriminations." Murmured...
...country's holy treasure: a reliquary said to contain the bones of St. Bridget of Sweden, a 14th century mother of eight, noted for her moral example and mysticism.* Among the 25 bits and pieces in the crumbling reliquary in Vadstena Abbey, HjortsjÖ hit a hagiological jackpot: parts of no less than seven men and six women, including St. Bridget's daughter St. Catherine, St. Bridget's confessor Peter of Alvastra, St. Sigfrid, and-without much doubt-St. Bridget herself...