Word: diced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dice. Nkrumah had spent even more summit money than had Algeria. His pretentious "Job 600," a complex of conference halls, office buildings, and a twelve-story, air-conditioned apartment house built for the Presidents and their delegations, was expected to cost at least $27 million−2% of Ghana's entire national income last year. The Redeemer had ordered his summit's postponement only because Job 600 had not been finished on time. The O.A.U. was already unhappy at the delay, he told Bouteflika, and any further tampering with the schedule could ruin the whole thing...
Curiously, Clark's most important contest in 1958 was one he lost. On Boxing Day, Dec. 26, he drove the Reivers' Lotus Elite in a ten-lap race at Brands Hatch, found himself involved in "a whale of a dice" with another Elite driven by a persistent, mustachioed fellow who bore a striking resemblance to Actor David Niven. His competitor, it later turned out, was Colin Chapman -a young, prematurely grey engineer who had graduated from London University in 1948, set up shop in 1952 as Lotus Cars, Ltd. For eight of the ten laps, Jim managed...
...Full 10%. It was the start of a lasting friendship. "The formula for a champion race driver," says Chapman, "is 10% natural ability, 90% experience and dedication." His own dice with Clark at Brands Hatch had convinced him that Jim "had the 10% in full." Already hard at work on a revolutionary Grand-Prix-car design-a "monocoque" body shell that needed no tubular skeleton, was actually little more than a steerable gas tank on wheels-Chapman decided that Clark was just the man to drive it. If he could...
Simon quickly expanded his money-making talents from dice. Working after school, he bought bags, towels and tissues from a paper manufacturer and sold them to San Francisco stores. At 16, in his most ambitious flyer, he put up money to lease a vaudeville theater, had broken even on the venture and was on his way to a profit when his father persuaded him to pull out of show business. He put his money in the stock market, gradually worked up from penny stocks to A.T. & T. He spent six weeks at the University of California at Berkeley before balking...
...suffled out of the second balcony, he stopped to watch a crap game that had started in a dark corner, by the men's urinal. He pondered for a moment, and grunted, "Loaded dice." That seemed to be the concensus...