Word: diced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record average 94.14 m.p.h. over the twisting 80-lap, 212-mi. course at Brands Hatch, England. In his green factory Lotus, Clark spurted into the lead at the start, was never headed and took the checkered flag just 2.8 sec. ahead of fellow Briton Graham Hill in a thrilling dice that saw the two zipping around nose to tailpipe for most of the race. The win, Clark's third in five Grands Prix so far, gave last year's world champion a total 30 points in the 1964 championship, four more than Hill...
...literary rubbish by writing the way they did. But merely taking the farthest possible position from romanticism is not a way to arrive at a philosophy of writing. Each of these polar views is too limiting. In a romantic novel, the hero always wins when he rolls the dice; in a Farrell novel, he always craps...
Whatever else it is-a proving ground for automobiles, a nostalgic bit of Americana-the Indianapolis 500 is mainly a dice with disaster. Drivers come and go, cars change, engines get bigger. The one constant is danger. In 54 years of Memorial Day racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 56 people have died. But nobody has to twist a driver's arm to compete. The prospect of instant fame and fortune is inducement enough -even though he knows, as Eddie Sachs once said, that "in the long run, death is the odds-on favorite...
...dice, roulette wheels, chemin de fer and blackjack were going full tilt. At one table a gambler toyed with $1,200 worth of chips; hovering over the dice was a Sidney Greenstreet character who, they said, picked up $29,000 at the tables a few weeks ago. Former Light-Heavyweight Champ Joey Maxim was guarding the door. "Can't drink," he mumbled. "I'm watching for hustling broads and big-time gamblers." Cannes? Monte Carlo? Vegas? Not quite. Freeport, in tiny Grand Bahama Island, is not even marked on many maps. Yet Freeport boosters already call...
...against each circuit. Currents flowing through the contacts check out every element of the circuit, and if it fails to meet all requirements,' the probe marks it for rejection with a speck of dye. Then another machine makes checkerboard scratches between the circuits, and they are separated into "dice" by breaking the brittle disk along the scratches...