Word: diced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gulf, driving the sea before it. With savage fury it seized the town of Brownsville, shook it to pieces, dumped dozens of wrecked houses into the rising sea-tide. It lifted the roofs off buildings in inland towns, tore out bridges and highways, rolled abandoned automobiles over & over like dice. The hurricane roared up the Rio Grande Valley snuffing out power stations, snapping electric wires, twisting houses, fences, highways and towns into jumbles of ruin. Then it raced across the Rio Grande, dissipated itself in the wastelands of Mexico. In its wake were 22 dead, 1,500 injured...
...snatching August Luer, aged Alton, Ill. banker, St. Louis police and Federal agents tracked down and arrested one Percy Michael Fitzgerald, ex-convict and burglar, known as the "Dice Box Kid." His confession led to the arrest of three other men and two women. The police also found the place where Banker Luer had been hidden on a farm between East St. Louis and Madison. Shiny new screws in the floor of the tool shed aroused their suspicion. They ripped up planks, discovered beneath them a pit from which a narrow tunnel led into a dark cave-the cave where...
...Arbor last week the University of Michigan's Zoologist Lee R. Dice announced to the Michigan Academy of Sciences his discovery that this ear defect is hereditary not only in the mice of Japan. He has found it in four strains of the common American deer mouse. Because this offers one of the few non-human instances in which abnormal behavior can be traced to a definite hereditary characteristic. Dr. Dice believes that further study of affected mice may help man to understand how he inherits nervous peculiarities...
...busy paint brushes in the ancient common room, the walls can recall scenes of happy parties of youths who have long since become seated in the chairs of the mighty. Here was the scene of the boxing matches so famous in Teddy Roosevelt's time. Often did the little dice click on the floors in some remote, but now dusty corner of the room. Foamy beer trickled down the throats and the room rang with joyous song. This was "the busiest room within the walls of the busiest building in the East" as "Mem" was often termed in days gone...
...mourning dances did not always end in a war party, hungry for scalps. Between the noble savagery of the Osages and the greed of half-civilized whites nibbling at the Reservation's borders, Major Miles (all Indian Agents were automatically ''Major") had his hands full. The dice were loaded: "civilization" was bound to win. The quiet, unbitter history closes with Eagle That Dreams singing his chant to the rising sun. "When the lower edge of the sun barely touched the horizon the chant stopped and the early morning world seemed to be listening, except for the coughing...