Word: raft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...used to run gambling junkets all over the world. For example, we made arrangements in London at George Raft's Colony Club to bring people to gamble. They put in $1,000 apiece and received $820 back in gambling chips; we paid their hotel, food and airline charges. Naturally most of them lost money in the casinos, and we got 15% of their losses. It was very simple to take their money, probably because they are all very greedy. They paid very little for the junkets, but they usually gambled far more than they had expected they would...
...children-Margaret and Olyde Johnson, aged eight and nine- drowned on May 15 when their make shift raft capsized in the pond. A third Johnson child, Leslie, was rescued by a Boston patrolman who struggled to resuscitate him for more than 30 minutes...
...dead-Margaret and Clyde Johnson-were the children of Jamaica Plain welfare recipients Mr. and Mrs. James E. Johnson. They drowned on Saturday, May 15, when a makeshift raft on which they had been playing capsized. The pond, called a "death hole" by local residents, has been the site of at least one other drowning and numerous near-drownings...
...finally did happen to the children of black welfare recipients Mr. and Mrs. James E. Johnson. Margaret and Clyde Johnson, aged eight and nine respectively, drowned in the pond Saturday morning after the makeshift raft on which they had been playing capsized...
...heart of the problem. Israeli-born Journalist Amos Elon, in his just-published book, The Israelis: Founders and Sons, writes that repeated pogroms in Europe, climaxed by the Nazi holocaust, "imbued the Zionist settlers with the relentless drive of drowning men who force their way on to a life raft large enough to hold both them and those who were already on it." Yet the life raft did not prove quite roomy enough. "By a brutal twist of fate, unexpected, undesired, unconsidered by the early pioneers," adds Elon, the price of establishing a Jewish homeland "was partly paid...