Word: dicings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clock on a sparkling summer morning, and over on the Boardwalk they are already crowding into the casinos-thousands of Ali Babas in brightly colored polyesters, searching for treasure in those vast air-conditioned caves. Dice are rolling, cards are turning, and there are hands attached to most of the slot machines, which occasionally gratify with spurts of change. It is the busiest time of year in the new Atlantic City, which has high hopes of becoming the Las Vegas of the East, and the ebb and flow of the surf has given way to an even more soothing sound...
Will some future Soviet Politburo be as confident about the potency of its strategic rocket forces as the American worst-case planners are? If so, and if those leaders decided to play what Brown has called "the cosmic roll of the dice" by attempting a pre-emptive strike, they would be mounting far and away the most massive and complicated technical operation in history without benefit of a dry run. Even if everything went according to plan, how could the gamblers in the Kremlin be sure the U.S. would not "launch on warning," meaning fire a retaliatory strike as soon...
...years of appeals by her husband, Pianist Leone Magiera, her coach and accompanist, to persuade her to resume her career. "Later, I am singing with La Scala, Covent Garden, Paris, Vienna, and it is difficult to come to America, I am so busy. Now I try, come si dice, to do a little slalom." She makes a wavy motion with one hand, skirting imaginary obstacles to illustrate the difficulty of fitting the U.S. into her European schedule. But she will: a Bohème in Houston and a Romeo et Juliette in Chicago later this year, Mascagni's obscure...
...Massachusetts Superior Court, he was asked what he found most striking about returning to private practice. "The fees," he snapped. "They are outrageous. With the cost of litigation these days, I think clients would often be better off if they just met in the halls and threw dice. Certainly it would be cheaper...
...best part of watching golf is the freedom. Once they tee off, they disappear into the trees or over the hill, and that's it until the drinks and the dice start flying in the clubhouse. You, the spectator, having chosen not to go along in the cart, have at least three hours to read, play Boggle, or go home and take...