Word: pinmanship
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Costing roughly $400, the pinball machine weighs 125 pounds, has over 700 feet of wire, a transformer, electric relays, motor, and hundreds of light bulbs. Experts, whose pinmanship is par excellence, direct the course of the magnetized marbles with well-calculated nudges, but usually when handled too roughly the machine shortcircuits and clicks on the "tilt" sign...
...fallen by the way and only the devotees remain. Harry's Arcade Spa, located under the wing of Mother Advocate, is the mecca of this latter group, the boys that "care." A knot of them, mostly from Adams House, gather after almost every lunch and dinner to practice their pinmanship. They look with disdain upon the more vulgar pin parlors on Mt. Auburn Street; places where no one seems to care...
...describe the delicate tones of this sport, an entire lexicon of terms has developed, based on local personalities and applicable imagery. General talk ranges from "pin cheat" (one who tilts the board) to the conventional club greeting: "How's your pinmanship?" Nickels are "legal tender" or "apaches"; quarters are "shingles." Scores are kept in "thous," and an especially unbeatable machine is a "Gottlieb masterpiece," named after the manufacturer...
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