1.
The wooden houses, the cool terraces for breezy card-playing afternoons, seemed to have been blown away in an anticipation of the prophetic wind that years later would wipe Macondo off the face of the earth
2.
A number of hedge funds, trading firms, and investment banks have started to look less at exam scores and more at old-school card-playing and board-playing experience when hiring new recruits
3.
There was card-playing every evening at his house, if only at one table
