Word: dices
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the game rules are agreed on, who gets the first throw of the dice...
...beginning, when each player has an issue of $1,500 in scrip, Brady gives advice on which property group to buy and develop, how many buildings to put on it, and what the prospects of returns and appreciation may be. Using the laws of probability ("The most commonly thrown dice total is seven, and you have a 1-in-6 chance of rolling it"), she lists properties in order from the most frequently landed on (Illinois Avenue) to the least (Pennsylvania Railroad...
...casinos in the state. Advocated by Governor Brendan Byrne as a source of state revenue, the casino idea was supported by Atlantic City businessmen who were hoping that the roulette wheel would restore the seaside resort's fading image. But a citizens' group calling itself Casinos-No Dice, backed by state legislators, law-enforcement officials and clergymen, raised the specter of an invasion of the casinos by organized crime. Though the pro-casino forces outspent Casinos-No Dice by some 20 to 1 and early opinion polls showed the measure winning easily, it was voted down...
...followed no particular pattern. Some appeared to be gang-related, some were committed in the course of robberies, some involved narcotics. All but a handful of the victims were blacks. One 17-year-old youth died after an argument over a piece of chicken, another over $10 in a dice game. A third teenager, who hoped some day to become a lawyer, was cut down a block from his home, the apparent victim of a young acquaintance with whom he had quarreled the day before. An 18-year-old was fatally shot by his sister after he threatened her with...
...Five Club (initiation fee per family: $2,000), a country club made up of members of five of pre-Castro Havana's most prestigious clubs. Bowntown at the American Club, members of the Cuban-American business establishment meet for lunch and a friendly game of cubilete (dice). A once famous Havana restaurant, Centre Vasco, has been resurrected on Miami's Southwest Eighth Street; its walls are adorned with jai alai baskets and its tables laden with steaming arroz con pollo and chilled sangria. The streets of La Saguesera bustle with fruit and vegetable stands, stores displaying religious artifacts...