Word: diced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss." Minneapolis was a wide-open town. At least 50 brothels were running full blast, afterhours, liquor joints flourished, local mobsters were riding high. Almost every corner cigar store had its betting books, its hooligan and "14" games (dice) or "66"(punchboards...
...Unless you got him away on a hunting trip," he added, "and gave him a few highballs and a pair of dice. Then you might find out what makes him tick...
...pocket's empty, it's got to be full. It's sort of like an automobile-can't run without gasoline." Frank explained what happened to $500 he'd stolen: "I gave $10 to my mother and told her I won it in a dice game. And I gave $10 to my brother . . . And the rest, I-I went out and threw the money away, because I knew I couldn't bring nothing home ... My mother would have wanted to know where I got the money...
Armed with several sets of dice, a few thousand spores, and a collection of neurotic paramecia, the College's new Society for Parapsychology is trying to find out if mere mental concentration can make physical objects act funny...
...order to see if "P-K" is truth or fantasy, the Society soberly tries to think spores into sprouting faster, think paramecia into moving right or left, and think dice into coming up all sevens...