Word: dices
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agenda includes digging up the South Yard, the site of the Old College and Indian College of the 1600s. Boston University Professor F.J.E. Gorman hopes his projected 20 students will be able to find evidence of 17th-century student ideologies--"evidence of student revolts," such as broken glass and dice and cards, from a time when gambling was forbidden...
...take a chance on a woman's galvanizing effect. Says one political consultant: "If he's six or eight points down in the polls, he'll go with the conventional choice. But if he's 15 to 20 points down, he may say it's time to roll the dice. That's where Ferraro comes in at convention time...
Whatever the method, players see the games as a dice roll on a dream. Says Louis DeSantis, who has sold New York lottery tickets at his Lower Manhattan newsstand since 1967: "People know they're not going to get rich on what they're making, so they invest a dollar and wish." But despite well-publicized accounts of overnight wealth (see box), a person is about 31½ times as likely to be killed by lightning as to win New York State's Lotto jackpot. "Sure, somebody wins," says Myron Powell, a retired Congregational minister who fought...
...ugly tracks of war seem so commonplace that one no longer takes as much notice of the gutted buildings as of the occasional glimpses of what everyday life must have been like before the bloodshed began. Along the Corniche, the broad, palm-lined boulevard that hugs the Mediterranean, dice clatter across wooden backgammon boards, as groups of men, each with one hand nervously working worry beads, cluster to watch. The clinking of delicate china cups announces the arrival of a coffee vendor proffering thick, black Turkish brew. As Sunday fishermen impatiently flick their lines, a water-skier waves from behind...
...dice came up snake eyes for the five following Harvard professors, all recently named by Bok to chair their respective departments for a period of three years effective July 1. Department chairman is a time-consuming administrative task at Harvard that rotates among department members. The unlucky five this time around are: Assistant Professor Gary A. Tubb (the incumbent in Sanskrit and Indian Studies); Professor Warren D. Goldfarb (Philosophy); Professor of Arabic Wolfhart P. Heinrichs (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations); Professor Stanley J. Tambiah (Anthropology); and Professor Sheldon H. White (Psychology and Social Relations...