Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gradually, with the scientific methods which have made mass destruction reach appalling proportions, war has ceased to be a sort of the roll-of-the-dice to determine . . . which should be the winner and dictate the terms. It has become an all-out effort. It has involved every man, child and woman in the whole world ... It is inherently a failure now. The last two wars have shown it. The victor had to carry the defeated on his back ... If you have another world war you are going to get such destruction and destructiveness [that]-I think...
...whether they showed up or not, the mob chieftains left telltale signs everywhere. In city after city, the same pattern of far-flung enterprise and secret partnerships showed up. The committee found that Meyer Lansky and Joe Adonis are busily engaged with dice games in New Jersey and roulette in Miami. Philadelphia's Dave Glass and Cleveland's Al Polizzi are partners in Miami Beach's Sands Hotel. New York's Frank Erickson shared the Colonial Inn in Hallandale, Fla. with Detroit's Mert Wertheimer; Cleveland's Tommy McGinty has "maybe...
...Manno also travels for the syndicate. The committee confronted him with a wire recording of a conversation he had been trapped into by Dallas' Sheriff Steve Guthrie in 1946. Manno had gone to Texas to see Guthrie, then sheriff-elect, about a "program of horse-booking, slot machines, dice, numbers, everything...
...night gamblers at Las Vegas' Golden Nugget heard the same rumble, over the click of chuck-a-luck cages, and looked up. "Must be an A-bomb," he remarked, and turned back to the dice table...
...interest in placing a bet at the moment, he could wander down to the stable area along the Susquehanna, watch such thoroughbreds as Exterminator or Sir Barton grazing under the trees. After the races there was the leisurely ride home, or perhaps a turn at the roulette wheel or dice table in what was apt to be, in race season, a relaxed and hospitable town...