Word: dices
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...license to fight. I even tried to set up a fight in a bullring across the border from San Diego, and they wouldn't let him leave the country. Overnight he became a 'nigger' again. He threw his life away on one toss of the dice for something he believed in. Not many folks do that...
...like to see freshman basketball coach and former Notre Dame star Ray "Dice" Martin suit up for one game to see if he can still...
...contrives detracts something from the legend that Brontë invented. Heathcliff was not meant to dally, however rudely, with Lon don ladies. Heathcliff also suggests that its hero is more pussycat than tiger. For all his violent talk ("I kicked him in the mouth, rattling his teeth nicely, like dice in a cup"), Heathcliff kills no one. His one violent act, cutting off the hand of an enemy who had tried to kill him, goads him into a shamefaced apology to Catherine. The real Heathcliff would never explain or apologize...
...tank-warfare re-creation Tobruk. Dunnigan's firm also imagines wars that have not yet happened: the one between the Soviets and the Chinese, the Canadian civil war, the invasion of America. The Pentagon buys Dunnigan's games, he says (and presumably plays with his maps and dice and cardboard counters), and so do the CIA and the Soviet embassy. Hobbyists gather every week at the Compleat Strategist, a Manhattan shop specializing in war-game paraphernalia, to play out SPI and Avalon Hill battles with divisions of 25-mm. toy soldiers...
...wants to use games for teaching. His customers, almost all of whom are male, want war, but he has bigger ideas. A recent SPI game is called A Mighty Fortress, and it is nothing less than a re-forming of the Reformation. Play the Pope cleverly, and roll your dice right, and Martin Luther becomes a minor malcontent known only to historians. Dunnigan's buyers are lean and hungry; their rooms are sandbagged with history books. "Games are one step beyond print!" he says, very excited by this idea. "You travel in a paper time machine that lands...