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Word: dices (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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This may be cold comfort, but when it comes to having children, nobody knows what is in store. For biological parents, kids are a roll of the DNA dice. Adoptive parents face greater risks, for their children carry a knapsack of genetic and cultural imponderables. Yet there are couples who heroically try to create a home, a family, a rich life for orphans from the U.S. and, increasingly, the Third World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption Fever | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...cruelty and violence are marketed every day, many of far less artistic merit than Cop Killer. This is our free market of ideas and images, and it shouldn't be any less free for a black man than for other purveyors of "irresponsible" sentiments, from David Duke to Andrew Dice Clay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: . . . Or Is It Creative Freedom? | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...Playing a cards or dice ten shillings, or possible expulsion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING IT BY THE RULES, COLONIAL STYLE | 7/10/1992 | See Source »

...Others counsel caution -- Kemp's favored political style -- contending that bolting the g.o.p. would permanently brand the supply-side conservative a pariah. Kemp's probable reluctance illustrates Perot's quandary in finding a credible running mate willing to risk his political career on one roll of the dice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spelling Out The Job Specs | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

...songs were usually interpreted as a reflection of his considerable personal turmoil. Human Touch and Lucky Town, as the titles suggest, are about putting smashed pieces together, about measuring loss and transcending it. Whatever he staked on these records, he's got it back on one Roll of the Dice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reborn, And Running Again | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

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