Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Genovese mob, Carlo ("Don Carlo") Gambino, 64, heir to the late Albert Anastasia's operations, plus ten other bigwigs. The D.A. wanted them to sing before a grand jury on crime in Queens, and a judge set bail at $100,000 each to help clear their throats. No dice. A friendly bondsman put up $1,300,000 for bail, the grand jury got nothing but grunts, and then it was back to La Stella's for that delayed lunch: escarole in brodo, linguini in clam sauce, striped bass, and wine. And just to show no hard feelings, they...
...lieutenant (James Coburn) who possessed a unique gift for bringing disorder out of chaos. And remember the no-neck sergeant (Aldo Ray) who hollered so loud he scared the roaches out of the popcorn? Not to mention all those dogfaces from Flatbush who seldom shot anything more dangerous than dice, and when anybody said "tanks" respectfully replied "yuh welcome...
...fact, that the Administration could rewrite the provision to overcome his opposition. After a recent two-hour session during which Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach sought to find some language that would be acceptable, Dirksen finally told him: "Nick, it's just no dice. I see no out that doesn't violate principle...
...TIME loads the dice inexcusably in its report [June 17] on London's reaction to Osborne's play, A Bond Honoured. Writes TIME: "London's critics cast one look at the tasteless mayhem . . . and held their noses." Of the twelve major newspaper critics, at least four held their breath. Harold Hobson in the Sunday Times said of Osborne: "He is not only our most important dramatist; he is also our chief prophet." According to Ronald Bryden of the Observer, "the effect of A Bond Honoured in performance is marvelously theatrical." Alan Brien of the Sunday Telegraph thought...
...Jane Waiting's dachshund took a few turns around the floor with a black lace bikini bottom and a purple beach robe with yellow trim. Really putting on the dog was Designer Ursula Lehnhardt, who wrapped her poodle Peppy in white mink and a collar studded with black dice, and Designer Larry Reiter, who dressed his wolfhound Czarina in silver lame and his whippet Isis in a $250 wild marabou coat dyed in bands of blue, purple, pink and orange...