Word: dices
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stuttering weed of a 12-year-old, and Chris Root, who spent a year living with the Schaefers after transferring to our high school. They're game designers now. I can remember us all huddled in Erich's darkened bedroom, a Rush album blaring as we rolled 20-sided dice, hunched over the charts, graphs and tables of a Dungeons & Dragons expedition. This was the future brain trust of a company worth hundreds of millions. How could I have missed that...
...modern children's program of my generation. It subverted all recognizable forms and deconstructed the pre-teen's understanding of such important institutions as the family, the school and the video arcade. When the school teacher did not know any better than to call Milton's masterpiece "Pair of Dice Lost," the program functioned as an ideological clarion call to future college students like you who would go on to demand the displacement of an ossified Western canon with more relevant investigations of low culture. Several years ago a student who will remain nameless--her name was Jen--handed...
...downing of a U.S. jet shows, the attack on Serbia is easily the riskiest and most complex military action of Clinton's presidency, his biggest roll of the dice. U.S. interests in Kosovo are murky, the coalition is fragile, the terrain unforgiving, and the enemy holds a lot of cards. And if you look closely, you can see the unmistakable damage from impeachment: the public is behind him by a thinner than normal majority as the operation begins. Credibility abroad begins at home...
...Mansfield and I both claim to know the meaning of responsibility and we resent each other for not getting it right. He frowns when students speak out of turn. I scream when I hear that Harvard Management pays someone $10 million a year to throw the dice on the stock exchange and less than $10 dollars an hour to 50 year old janitors who have been sweating at Harvard for years...
Mansfield and I both claim to know the meaning of responsibility and we resent each other for not getting it right. He frowns when students speak out of turn. I scream when I hear that Harvard Management pays someone $10 million a year to throw the dice on the stock exchange and less than $10 dollars an hour to 50 year old janitors who have been sweating at Harvard for years...