Word: slots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matronly overseers and a consulting physician, catered to U.S. tourists. Cheaper cribs along Virtues Street enticed Cubans. There were 10,000 harlots and as many panderers. Payoffs from prostitution and gambling ran into the millions and were efficiently organized, e.g., Batista's brother-in-law had charge of slot machines...
...Athletic Director enumerated several reasons behind these moves. "First of all," he said, "we feel that Yovicsin needs some time to himself to perfect his slot-T attack. The understanding is that he will spend the year in the Pocono mountains where he'll study and perhaps play a little golf in his spare moments...
...there were a conspiracy to get all parody over and done with as quickly as possible, CBS chose the same night, same time slot, to run Jack Benny's long-celebrated Autolight, a 15-minute spoof of Gaslight, the 1944 melodrama in which a Victorian villain tries to drive his wife insane. Filmed in 1952, Autolight was impounded by the courts after M-G-M complained that Benny's hoked-up version hewed so closely to the original that it violated copyright laws. Benny fought the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, March...
Playing at the number one position, Hamm defeated his old nemesis, Gary Tobin, who had whipped him earlier this year in a holiday tournament. Tim Gallwey withstood the smashes of Ephman Ed Fleischman to win in the second slot. Gerry Emmet, Pete Lund, Fred Vinton, Tony Lake, Wally Stimpson, Vic Poletti, and Kent Allen also registered victories...
...Going further with that power of suggestion," Shelley continues, "you recall the little slot behind the seat in front of you? There's one item in this little slot which is the most ominous item in the whole damn plane. It's a little, innocent-looking white bag. There are instructions on the back in three different languages, French, Italian and Hebrew. And all they're saying, freely translated, is Tn here, slob. In here...