Word: backgammon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...badly infested by leaf worm, but because there is not enough money to buy insecticide, youngsters have been sent into the fields to pick the worm off the plants by hand. The tourist tide has dried, the guides at the pyramids and Sphinx sit playing trictrac (a variation of backgammon) with each other. Egypt is losing $5,000,000 a week in revenues from the closing of the Suez Canal, where, along with more than a dozen other ships, a German freighter sits helpless with 5,000,000 eggs that are ready to spoil. And on the other side...
...only the Jordanians handled themselves ably and well?and paid for it with what Hussein called "tremendous losses" that included as many as 15,000 dead. Lebanon fired not a shot at Israeli ground forces during the entire war; as they manned their border positions, its soldiers played a backgammon-like game called tricktrack and watched the Syrians and Israelis trade shellfire. Breastbeating to the contrary, Syrian ground forces made no significant move to relieve the pressure on Jordan and Egypt. Few Arab pilots had a chance to show their skills; and those that did came out second best...
...that, Pro Quarterback is only one example of an unprecedented new interest in adult games. The bestseller continues to be Monopoly. Backgammon and dominoes, which were long confined largely to male clubrooms, are now being played by both sexes in highly successful charity tournaments from Manhattan to San Francisco. Sets of go, Scrabble and chess are selling briskly...
Newport's social bastions still are the Spouting Rock Beach Association, which owns famed Bailey's Beach, and the Newport Reading Room, where men of the summer colony still gather in the afternoon for drinks, backgammon or boccie. To gain membership in any of these hallowed institutions is every bit as difficult as it was to be accepted in Newport back in the days when old John Jacob Astor remarked that "a man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich." In some ways it may be more difficult today; since many of Newport...
...first anguished twinge comes one evening when he invites Connor to the top-drawer Shore Club for the perverse I purpose of seeing him bankrupted at backgammon. Instead, Connor winds up $4,000 ahead, the well-born clubmen welsh on their losses, and Thompson begins to question himself. The answers he tries out are, successively, drinking, urinating on the Shore Club walls, and letting himself be cuckolded by, of all people, Connor. The disintegration of Lock Thompson evokes less pity or terror than tedium. Though Author Wetmore has a palate for sour-mash dialogue, he puts into a quart bottle...