Word: diced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reason, God did not altogether concur in their plan. He continued to turn out many odd and upsetting creatures-parsons who were hanged, poets who went mad, lords who started riots, scholars who drank ink, dukes who lost ancestral estates on a throw of the dice. Or, if a man of reason appeared, he might be almost too rational : Admiral Byng, on the morning of his execution, blandly "took his usual draught for the scurvy...
...Dice. In Roseville, Calif., a city-operated recreation center for children folded after four months because a nearby poolroom had absorbed all the juvenile customers...
Slot machines now clank in remote service stations. There are few towns so small that a housewife cannot take a pass at the dice for a dime. In Las Vegas and Reno, divorcees, cowhands, tourists and plain citizens crowd plush palaces where roulette wheels whir and stacked silver dollars gleam on green tables. Gamblers are Nevada's new bonanza kings. Wilbur ("Little Caesar") Clark, 37-year-old operator of Las Vegas' gaudy new Monte Carlo Casino, had only $2,200 in 1941. Now he owns a gambling palace, a hotel, four cocktail bars and two cardrooms; is part...
Rundstedt's plan by now was clear. He had made a historic throw of the dice and his prize was time. If successful in disrupting the Allies' armies, he could win six months-six months to scrape up combat manpower, while German scientists and technicians hurried to develop their new V-weapons...
...appealing village "daftie" (Playwright Curtis) - only children and dafties, of course, can communicate with ghosts. From his angel wife Charlie learns that he can still crash the pearly gates if he reforms a living sinner. He pitches on the neighborhood's lustiest devotee of Scotch, women and dice, and their efforts to outsmart each other provide the brightest moments in the play. In the course of it all Charlie outsmarts himself; no Heavenly fling, he discovers, can equal a good old Highland fling...