Word: dices
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Hope: Did you ever meet a Marine with a pair of dice...
...street." In Dallas police frisked a burglary suspect. He was wearing: a pair of overalls, two pairs of trousers, two swim suits, two suits of long underwear, seven pairs of shorts, eight pair of women's lace panties. In his pockets were: three knives, five pairs of dice, two pairs of scissors, five fountain pens, nine corks, a ring of keys, eight lead sinkers, twelve fish lines, 51 pencils, 14 marbles, one pecan, a box of snuff...
Luck. In St. Paul, Minn., police arrested three visitors at a hotel where the American Legion was holding a State convention. They carried 200 pairs of loaded dice...
...Mississippi River roustabout, Mike Fink, as "half man, half alligator," the Vagabond remembered. That certainly caught his character right,--a leathery-hides roughneck, quick with a knife, ready to let you have it with hands, feet, fingernails, anti teeth if he didn't like the way you shook your dice...
Winston Churchill, who often gives himself over to exultation but seldom to optimism, saw this grim week for what it was: one of Britain's last chances to roll the dice. But the quality which makes Britain's Prime Minister a hardy, resilient gambler, which made him take the chance in Greece after having taken the chance in Norway, was his ability to diagnose far ahead of time the enemy's next moves...