Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Street presented a moving scene. Sad-faced gamblers stood by as vans backed up and hauled away dice tables, roulette wheels and blackjack tables...
...evening meals, the dignity ended there. Gorging contests, in the finest Ciceronean style, were frequent. Students seemed to delight in scooping up fistfulls of sugar and waging pitched throwing battles during the course of the meal. The darker corners of the hall invariably echoed with the click of dice...
...Tokyo meant the first leg of the trip home. For others it meant only a temporary break in the dirty business of war. They had no yarns to swap, no desire to learn any more than they already knew about war. From a few groups came the click of dice, and the only voices audible over the distant roar of engines were the urgent pleas of crapshooters. At one group, a Red Cross worker paused to chat with a sergeant who had spent 13 months in Korea. Said the sergeant: "For 15 months the guys have been running...
...Broke! (from the regimental motto, a piece of Hawaiian dice-shooting slang for "Shoot the works!") follows the outfit from a U.S. training camp into the heat of the Italian and French campaigns. It tells the story largely in terms of a Texas-proud lieutenant (Van Johnson) whose Nisei men gradually overcome his prejudice against them. At the climax, the 442nd's rescue of a trapped battalion of the 36th (Texas) Infantry Division in France's Vosges Mountains, even Johnson's diehard, Jap-hating buddy (Don Haggerty) takes the Nisei to his bosom...
Norman Mailer has a bad case of moral claustrophobia. Viewed through his polarizing spectacles, all the dice are loaded, all the cards are marked, all the wheels are rigged. All the world's a cage, and all its men & women merely slayers. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, had enough of the juice of life to disguise this sophomoric fatalism. The only juice in Barbary Shore is embalming fluid...