Word: diced
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plane which flew over Tercentenary Theatre during the morning graduation exercises trailed a banner reading "NO DICE," the acronym for a student group calling itself "No Dollars Into Clark's Endowment...
...prime-time shows. Yet, encouraged by critical acclaim and a slew of Emmys, NBC stuck with it. The show would probably still be going strong if it weren't for star Ted Danson's decision to leave at the end of this season. "Our thinking was, we rolled the dice twice, when we replaced Nick Colasanto ((with Woody Harrelson)) and Shelley Long ((with Kirstie Alley)), and we won," says James Burrows, who created the show with Glen and Les Charles and has directed nearly every episode. "We didn't want to risk that again. It is better to leave early...
...easier to clean -- but the rituals remain. The owner who shakes hands with the regulars. The blue-uniformed laborer downing his half-liter of beer. The war veteran nursing his Calvados-laced coffee. In villages, farmers gather after a day's harvest for a shot of pastis and a dice game. In cities, shopgirls pause for orange juice and a croque monsieur, the grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich that is one of the mainstays of cafe fare. "Parisian zincs are the ideal theater of the comedy of man," observes the weekly L'Express...
...instead of kicking the field goal, Yale Coach Carm Cozza elected to run one more play--and the dice nearly came up seven...
...High School football team is often seen with other members of Real Men at Red Sox and Patriots games, handing out leaflets titled "Ten Things Men Can Do to End Sexism and Male Violence Against Women" at Red Sox and Patriots Games and protesting offensive comedians such as Andrew Dice Clay. Enduring angry slurs such as "fucking fags" from men who refuse to take the leaflet at these sports events, he and his group seek to appeal to men's better instincts, to make them understand the difficulties of being a woman in a violent, male-dominated society...