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Word: diced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dice. Now that I am old and weary, I would

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wind & Moon Play | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Split Pot. In Detroit, a vice squad broke up a dice game, smashed dice table and chairs, carted the players off to jail, returned later to find that the released players had pieced table and chairs together and renewed the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...later could repay. "But I got in so deep I couldn't stop. I lost count of what I was spending." From Montreal he flew back to New York's Statler Hilton, used the card to cash checks, then went on to Las Vegas. There he shot dice at the same table with Frank Sinatra, who said: "Let the kid roll." He rolled and won $400, flew back to Manhattan and checked into the Henry Hudson Hotel in a $60-a-day room. He engaged it for a month to get the $30-a-day economy rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Fun on the Card | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Framingham, Mass., Carousel Theater: Lloyd Bridges rolls the Runyon dice as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Balanced Judgment. In Louisville, charged with passing four counterfeit $100 bills. Gambler Eugene T. Luker testified that he won the money with crooked dice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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