Word: dices
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...League opener against Brown (1-0) on Saturday afternoon at Brown Stadium in Providence, R.I., the Crimson (1-0) has a slightly different plan in mind—win, but without the last-second drama.“I don’t think you can roll the dice for a third time and let one of the stronger programs and teams in the league jump out on us,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “We’ve got to get off to a great start, and even that doesn’t guarantee...
...Davis) ... who hires as her nanny mystery girl Mae (Erika Christensen) ... who attracts the attention of cop Carlos (Jay Hernandez, above, with Christensen) ... who forms an alliance with Damian (Dorian Missick), a gambler struggling to go straight. It's a drama of chance with enough charm to roll the dice...
...master’s in mathematics. Mosteller later went on to receive his doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University.During his sophomore year at CMU, Mosteller encountered a question in one of his classes that would propel him towards a career in statistics—when three dice are rolled, what is the chance that the sum of the faces will be 10?Though all the students in the class got the correct answer by counting on fingers, Mosteller wondered how the problem could be solved for more dice than one could keep track of on their hands. Professor Olds later...
...often made himself and his weaknesses the subject of his comedy. His material wasn't mean. To compare him to two later comics, one good, one awful, Lenny didn't play the angry old man, like Carlin, fuming at everybody's idiocy, or the stud-bully, like Andrew Dice Clay, spuming a bully's polluted derision. In the 1959 interview, Krassner asked, "Do you think there's any sadism in your comedy?", and Lenny recoiled. "What a horrible thought. If there is any sadism in my work, I hope I ? well, if there is, I wish someone would whip...
...time, I was just a really optimistic person,” she says. “You roll some dice and hope something will happen, even for an immigrant from Mexico...