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Word: slots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Girls are not all a G.I. gets. In the club foyer stand 34 slot machines that spill out jackpots of up to $1,500. The slot machines are what makes everything else possible. There are bingo games with $1,000 prizes, plus free trips to Hawaii with all expenses paid. At the bar, cocktails and highballs cost 5? each. Steaks served by dimpled Okinawan waitresses come higher: 25?. Once a week, pizza pies are served free; once a month, all drinks are on the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKINAWA: Home Was Never Like This | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

Drummed Out. In Hillsboro,Ill., after raiding Post No. 1306, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and seizing two slot machines, Sheriff Harold Whitten was cited by the veterans as an "undesirable member," ousted from the club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 15, 1960 | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...Innocent is sure to write continuously about problems like those of the Admissions Office. If enough good men turn down Dean Bender's job, it might be tempting for the University to remove this policy slot from the deanery-beanery and feed it in little pieces to sweet-breathed administrators. To avoid this, and insure that the job remain a key policy position, the Innocent might even ask the Dean of Harvard College to give up a job which, qua job, can often be of marginal importance, and a $125,000 home, to step into the Admissions Office, like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Innocents at School | 2/3/1960 | See Source »

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