Word: diced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monroe, Mich., when a deputy sheriff found 52 pairs of dice in Carroll Hawkins' car, Hawkins maintained that he was going to use them to make a top for his wife's coffee table...
Crap Door. In Hartford, Conn., Dominick Granell was in a dice game that was raided by police, later complained that he was injured when he fell out a fourth-floor window while being chased by the law, sued the city for $15,000, settled for $490 at a pretrial hearing...
...Bones. In Seattle, Pro Gambler Robert Dupree, who was hurt in an auto accident last year, claimed in court that his crap-shooting arm had been damaged, won a verdict for $9,500 after telling the court that "you have to get in an awkward position sometimes shooting dice, especially if you're trying to make a four the hard...
...bottle of rum was produced to fuel four divers who would splash into the cold pool behind Mamie's number. Director Dwight Hemion insisted that Comic Tom Poston carry three spare sets of dice for his crapshooting sketch with Costello. Mamie asked for an "idiot card" to cue her at the pool, and, added Executive Producer Jules Green, "make sure that the water is deep enough where she's supposed to dive...
Technical Assistance. In the fleshpot city of Havana, where gambling has always been one of the more reputable vices, a few casinos were prospering moderately in the early 1950s. Then some U.S. thugs introduced an eight-dice game called razzle-dazzle, so complex that most suckers never even learned the rules before they were fleeced. As resentment over this form of larceny spread among U.S. tourists, President Fulgencio Batista grew worried. In 1955 he decided to look around for U.S. technical assistance. The man who popped up was Meyer Lansky...