Word: diced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when to stop. Had Odie Seagraves ever learned to curb his penchant for just one more deal, he would have been one of the wealthiest men in Texas, worth some $150 million. But as every born gambler knows, the hardest thing in the world is to give up the dice...
...could go-and whoever was chosen by his party, the ruling Liberal-Democrats, would become the country's Prime Minister. In symbolic anticipation of a decision about to be cast, the artificial trees in the lobby at Tokyo's Sankei Kaikan theater were festooned with large paper dice. The red curtain rose to reveal the elders of the party wearing white rosettes and seated onstage, with a huge rising sun as a backdrop...
...Carpet Welcome. Despite this tendency to load her political dice. Han Suyin can convey the heat, the squalor, and flux of Asiatic life with expert touches...
...born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen in Minneapolis, the son of an impoverished Polish rabbi, grew up in Chicago to become Mike Todd, his own special creation. He got off to a fast start at eight, playing poker and shooting dice. At twelve he was running an established but impermanent floating crap game. Since then, in one way or another, he has never stopped gambling. He asserts, probably correctly, that he is the only man ever to lose a race track on a horse race...
...Brooks's unsuccessful 1954 Broadway play, Fragile Fox, the film has raised the hackles of the Defense Department, which considers it "derogatory to Army leadership during combat." A more serious charge is that the picture spends more time making melodrama than making sense. Even in its fighting, the dice are curiously loaded: the G.I.s are shown as tattered scarecrows on the edge of exhaustion in contrast to the spit-and-polish Nazis, who wear uniforms more appropriate to the parade ground than to combat. A similar imbalance flaws the plot. Smithers, though he has the courage to murder...