Word: dice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picul of gold was a drop in the bucket; he had reaped one of the polyglot Portuguese colony's biggest fortunes from his teeming salons, where gamblers from nearby Hong Kong and South China came for fan-tan and cusek (played with dice). During the war Foo got into the big time; he cornered Macao's food market. On the profits he kept six concubines in a Macao mansion...
Enigma. In Grand Rapids, Kenneth Franklin, found to possess 50 pairs of loaded dice and less than $15, was arrested for "being unable to give a satisfactory account of himself...
Died. Robert Frederick Foster, 92, Scottish-born ultimate authority on parlor Cames (Foster's Hoyle), who specialized in bridge, also knew all about poker, chess, cinch, dice, hearts, whist, skat, Russian bank (his favorite), dominoes; in Eastham, Mass...
...barred owl to find his mouse. Barn owls needed slightly more. The floor of a thick forest on an overcast, moonless night is considerably darker-too dark for an owl to get around in and see what he's up to. Under such murky conditions, Dr. Dice's experiments indicated, an owl flies, if at all, on instruments...
...Dice's owls appeared less than wise. They never learned to search the floor systematically for mice which they could...