Word: dice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other spirited occasions took place in the great dining hall. A gay banquet was held in honor of King Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales; boxing matches and dice games were not uncommon. The menu was unappealing, however: four dollars weekly for "fish, eggs, and dessert, with meat extra." Such fare drove many students to other places to eat, and 1925 saw the last scrambled eggs in Memorial Hall. Experimental mice in the University's Psychological Laboratories now scurry through the old basement kitchen...
Just Us Historians. In Akron, police raided a 9-by-12-ft. room, inside found two chairs, a bed, a table, a dresser, three pairs of dice, twelve decks of cards, one bottle of gin and 23 men who explained that they had gathered "to discuss current events...
...cutthroat confines of what Weaver likes to call "the high executive level" of radio and TV, there is no certainty that such a gambler can count on being around long enough even to see the last throws of his own dice. But if that was worrying NBC's Weaver last week, he did not show it. He had brought the excitement of the year to the business, forced his competitor CBS into some spectaculars of its own (although that is never admitted), and jarred the advertising men out of their...
...democratic to enforce the law. "The people would vote against anyone who forced them to vote," an official explained. Because of the numbers game, issues were obscure, but most Uruguayans went to the polls mumbling 14, 15 or 97. Once out of the booths, they fell avidly to playing dice and roulette right in the open-for Uruguayan law also provides that on election day the police must ignore all such minor crimes as public gambling. In the final count, the Colorados (who have been in power for 89 years) beat the Blancos 387,803 to 266,960, and Batlle...
...First the dice are thrown for wine which the libertines drink. Then they toast the prisoners twice; then they toast the living thrice. Four times wine is drunk for Christians, five times for the faithful departed, six times for the boastful sisters, seven times for the forest soldiers...