Word: one-armed
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...east as Reno, rain sent the peaceful Truckee River on a binge, cut the city in half. Undaunted tourists kept yanking undaunted one-arm bandits in Harolds Club, joked about floating crap games. Though no lives were lost, the Reno region suffered $5,000,000 in damages. In southwest Oregon, the heaviest rains in 78 years brought floods that killed twelve people and flung huge fir logs off cliffs like harpoons...
...Montana Supreme Court in a series of decisions in June and July 1950 ruled that slot machines are illegal in Montana, and the voters in the Nov. 7 election, by a large majority, defeated a referendum which would have made the "one-arm bandits" legal...
...Yardlings ran and passed fairly well, but their blocking was light, and their tackling ineffective. High grabs and and one-arm stabs were common, and it usually took two or three men to down the Holy Cross ball-carrier...
...sharp Blue and White passing and running attack piled up yardage as the Crimson, hampered by the early loss of two-way right end Harvey Popell, tried high tackles and one-arm grabs in a futile attempt to stop the Brandeis runners...
Circumstantial. In Detroit, Mrs. Elizabeth Nicholson, mother of five, filed suit for divorce when she found a traffic ticket in her husband's pocket. The charge: one-arm driving...