Word: diced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also read excerpts from a new play he finished New Year's Day called "Hapgood." The play's main characters are a spy-catcher and a Russian partical physicist who is also a double agent. "Einstein did not believe in a God who threw dice," the Russian says...
...complicated to copy. Says Chris: "We got kind of cheesed off by the Trivial Pursuit knockoffs appearing all over the world and decided to try something with a little inspiration." The result is almost as arcane to explain as Dungeons & Dragons. But it is played with Rubi Cubi dice. However that sounds, the other game crazeman, Erno Rubik, has nothing to do with this...
...willingness to bet billions of dollars, and sometimes the whole company, on new types of planes. In the late 1960s, Boeing executives risked more than $1 billion on the first jumbo jet, the 747, and nearly drove the firm into bankruptcy. A decade later Boeing rolled the dice again by investing $3 billion in the simultaneous development of two fuel-efficient, twin-engine jets, the trim 757 and the wide-body...
...stigmatization will get him off the bottle or out of the driver's seat. They are for him, and for a sizable portion of our society, the symbols of a way of life. In our safety-conscious society, he's got to dice with death to find redemption...
...show a motive for the alleged fraud, Volz detailed the Governor's addiction to dice. Edwards was as unrepentant about his gambling habits as he had been about the money he made opening doors. "I don't collect coins," Edwards said. "I don't race horses. I like to gamble." Volz contended that Edwards lost $2 million in Nevada between 1981 and 1984; Edwards insisted that he had not squandered anything near that amount. "If I wasn't under oath," he said, "I'd tell...