Word: rigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gold were just poor little lambs led astray by evil gamblers. Last week in Manhattan, the police dredged up enough new muck to drown the idea. The latest batch of basketball crooks, it appeared, had been just as eager to doublecross each other over the payoff money as to rig games to fit gambling odds...
Jordan may be able to rig defenses to stop Davison, but any attempts to jam the middle will expose the Crimson to PROBABLE STARTING LINEUPS: HARVARD PRINCETON Crowley (176) ie Reed (182) Toepke (196) lt Smith (210) Kanter (187) ig Hawke (185) O'Brien (210) e Finney (192) Rosenau (198) rg Clark (178) Connelly (200) rt Urschel (197) Rate (193) re Bunnell (195) O'Neil (190) qp Chandler (195) Lowenstein (152) ihb Kazmaler (168) Biltz (188) or Wardon (184) rhb Kielnsasser (164) West (203> fb Davison...
...late afternoon. The drenching rain flooded the paved depression where State Street dips under a bridge out on the sprawling South Side. It forced a trucker named Mel Wilson to drive slowly as he hauled 8,000 gallons of gasoline into the city in a heavy truck & trailer rig. It kept Loop crowds huddled in doorways until just before Chicago Transit Authority streetcar 7078 came by. Then the rain ended, and No. 7078-one of a speedy new type which Chicagoans call "Green" Hornets"-was quickly jammed...
...Troubador" will leave Newport with the fleet Thursday, June 18, and is expected back July 2; average time for the distance is six days. Built in 1926 and owned by Henry Baay, Inc. of Marblehead, the "Troubador" with her gaff schooner rig, will hold her own better off the wind either running or reaching than she will tacking...
Help. Overalled cops from the police emergency squad were finally called in. They cut the ends from an oil drum, lowered it around him as protection against further caving and then began to shore the well with lumber and rig supports under the roof in case digging weakened the pillar. A crowd gathered. Photographers fired flashbulbs down the hole; Dominick grinned up sheepishly...