Word: slotted
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...short order, Worker's Vanguard will outsell the Wall Street Journal in the Big Apple and stamp machines will replace slot machines in Vegas. Communist banners will go up as Confederate flags go down in South Carolina and dogs will be banned for life from front yards in California. New Hampshire convicts will stamp "Mao was Right, We Were Wrong" instead of "Live Free or Die" on state license plates and Oregon students will wear USPS uniforms to school, carry books from class to class in mail sacks and call for a ride home from thirty-three cent pay phones...
Junior center Steve Moore opened the scoring for the Crimson, knocking home a shot from the slot off a Union turnover at 8:45 of the first period...
...Suddenly, over the din of the still, sad music of the slot machinery, I hear what I think is my name being called over the public address system. "Robert Coolbrith, please dial extension blah-blah-gargle-blah." I find an official-looking man wearing a cerulean blue coat and an earpiece, and ask him for some assistance. He leads me to a house phone. I speak with an operator and discover that I have not been paged. The blue-coated man asks me how things went on the phone, and I must report to him that...
...months out of the year from this place. But I get sick of it. You're in the bar, you want to buy a girl a drink. But all the fucking drinks here are free. And besides, the chicks in here, all they want to talk about is slot machines. I want to talk about pussy...
...However, at the end of the first exhibit hall, gaming does get some of its due. A brief series of panels on a wall describes the gaming operation and its impact upon the community. Next to these, a mocked-up slot machine stands as a model of what has brokered the reservation's transformation. As I read one of the panels, the whitest man I have ever seen, complete with massive gut, Boston accent and wife in tow, passes in front of me, headed for the slot machine. He looks around nervously and surreptitiously removes his wallet from his back...