Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Sentence. In Miami, Judge Cecil C. Curry sentenced two men found rolling dice on a Flagler Street sidewalk to "one minute each in jail...
...killer" tune, you can't go wrong on this. It's played at a breakneck pace, and is a fight to the finish, although it's hard to say who wins (OKEH) . . . Fats Waller turns out more insane novelty on "All That Meat and No Potatoes and Buckin' the Dice, latter including tenor sax by Gene Cedric. One of these days people are going to realize what a mean horn he plays (BLUEBIRD...
...hermaphroditic comedy at Mother Kelly's. Across Biscayne Bay, on the Miami side, painted men danced and profaned sweet songs at the Club Ha-Ha. In the casinos at Ben Marden's Colonial Inn, the Sunny Isles Club, the Royal Palm, gamblers crowded the roulette and dice tables. On the ocean side, Glamor Row flung its facade of stucco and neon at the sky and the sea: the new Lord Tarleton, the Versailles, the older Roney Plaza, many another hostelry where the cheaper rooms went...
...Angeles court on behalf of two women (afterwards acquitted) on trial for practicing optometry without a license, lank, brooding British Author Aldous Huxley described the improvement in his vision which had come from exercises they had given him - including staring at Mexican jumping beans and bouncing dice till he could read with out glasses...