Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of IndoChina's 23 millions, the struggle with Communism is a gigantic dice game, and before they place their bets, the Indo-Chinese want to know who is going to win. My guest's remark contained the soundest piece of advice which could be given the West out here today: the best way to win this particular battle is to demonstrate that you have no intention of losing...
...Bromfield. The contents of his pockets, she noted, were a collection "worthy of the pockets of Huckleberry Finn ... a wallet filled with checks he has forgotten to cash ... a trick pocketknife, a cigarette holder, a cigarette lighter . . . part of a package of fruit drops, a pair of Stork Club dice ... an immense quantity of loose silver . . . clippings from the ten or twenty magazines and newspapers he reads every day, as well as a collection of crumpled and soiled memoranda...
...state [of the gambler who made 28 straight passes with dice]: "If he had left his winnings on the table he could have run his original $2 into at least $289,406,976" [TIME, June...
When he left the service in 1945, says he, "the dice -were loaded. We had known all along we could mass-produce houses if there was a market for them and credit for builders. Now the market was there and the Government was ready with the backing. How could we lose...
...chances of making 28 straight passes with the dice in a crap game are "about ten million to one." But last week a young man walked into Las Vegas' plush new Desert Inn, and in one hour and 20 minutes of hair-raising play, did just that. His amazing run of luck cost the casino $125,000. Zeppo Marx won $28,000 in side bets, Gus Greenbaum, one of the owners of a rival club, raked in $48,000, and others among the gamblers who crowded four-deep around the table carried off thousands more...