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checkers
1. It had red and white checkers
2. There were seven counters and twelve checkers, none of whom were allowed to vote because they had to be independent
3. with some girls playing Chutes and Ladders, some checkers
4. Afterward, while we were playing a game of checkers, she spoke:
5. We used to play checkers and chess together
6. played checkers with a rhesus monkey
7. I’d thought of learning to play checkers, the game that the night shift telegraphers, miles apart, played by wire during slack times
8. Complete with both red and black checkers, numbered boards would be set up in train stations along the way
9. One night the telegraph in the next office began its string of clicks, but it wasn’t some other telegrapher wanting to play checkers
10. coffee tables were littered with half-played games of checkers and senet
11. Bring a game of checkers
12. By the way we were going; you could hardly think that we were going to play checkers
13. Yet checkers still with red the dusky brakes
14. With the spell checkers available on your computer it only takes a second and a click of your mouse to do this, so get into the habit early!
15. Amaranta felt freed of a reef, and she herself did not understand why she started thinking again at that time about Colonel Gerineldo Márquez, why she remembered with such nostalgia the afternoons of Chinese checkers, and why she even desired him as the man in her bedroom
16. “Yeah, like checkers or chess, but different
17. He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebeca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Márquez, and in which Amaranta Úrsula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past
18. kitchen table was beautiful, red and white checkers, my entire
19. And having this job, we had plenty of time on our hands, with very few demands, so most of us played checkers, or Rook every day
20. And the checkers and the agent boys were bawling the destinies of buses, “GUWAHATI-GUWAHATI-GUWAHATI!
21. the front of the store where all the checkers were
22. In one corner, two old men were playing checkers in front of a
23. We'll set you by a fire and feed you something warm and we'll play a game of checkers with Pascal
24. But don’t linger too much over them, since many of you, who still continue to play in devised “spirituality”, remind me of those amateurs who play checkers (chess is out of the question!) with themselves
25. How many board games are based upon the idea of decapitation? Chess, Checkers, Chinese checkers, card games, the throwing of dice, the throwing of bones, etc
26. Churchill did not change his goal of winning a 2nd war in Europe with the changing times because the undead ghouls of his family’s evil filthy dynasty had a death grip on his inner soul: he systematically corrupted himself and reduced himself to selling his soul for money in order to ‘preserve’ and ‘save’ his country estate called checkers to keep it in running order and pay for his staff of servants
27. What was the hidden meaning of that name checkers? It was Churchill’s own private joke
28. The level of Churchill’s political cunning was the level of playing a game of checkers… The goal of checkers is to turn as many pieces into Kings by putting another piece on top of the pieces in play: this signifies an undead entity which controls the movements of the living human it takes control of and gives it more mobility because it is operating in two zones instead of just one, and can see what other undead players are doing to oppose its goals and counter-act them without the living shell it controls being aware of its 2-level manipulations in the realm of the Living and the realm of the undead
29. Churchill led a checkered life; constantly landing on red or black squares of the labor or conservative party until he was finally completely corrupted and landed only on the black squares, in a reversal of how checkers is played
30. I watched a man and his son playing checkers a few rows over
31. And the father put one of his checkers on the boy’s and made for the son another king, by which the son would use to destroy the father’s hopes of winning a checkers game
32. We invite you to join us in bringing dominos into classrooms, adding this valuable collaborative skill to the approved set of other games that school children play (backgammon, chess, checkers, etc
33. During that year just before Nixon was to give his famous “Checkers” speech invoking the family dog and Pat’s cloth coat to stay on the ticket as Ike’s vice presidential running mate, Burger, then the Minnesota Republican leader, and his wife, Vera, sent Nixon a word of encouragement
34. We were playing checkers
35. After dinner each evening, there were more formal entertainments—a variety show, an amateur hour, mock trials and mock weddings, bingo games, checkers and chess tournaments, and a casino night during which the athletes wagered stage money
36. He figured it would be like applying the rules for checkers into a chess game and wondering why he had lost
37. But that led into checkers
38. Sometimes their hands reached out for a game of checkers or a string of beads or an old chair, and just as they touched it they looked up and there were Mr
39. It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence
40. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday somehow he beat her at dominoes, somehow she lost at checkers, and soon, she cried, he’d defeat her handsomely at chess
41. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday somehow he beat her at dominoes, somehow she lost at checkers, and soon, she cried, he'd defeat her handsomely at chess
42. “You could sew or play checkers,” he suggested brightly, “even cards, and maybe knit
43. During the course of years of production on a book such as The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, many people become invested in the project, from researchers and investigators to copy editors and fact checkers to designers, publicists, and, yes, even attorneys
44. From breakfast until bedtime she was busy with him in the salon, while the other two played Chinese checkers, and when at last she managed to put him to sleep she would hang the wicker cage from the ceiling on the cooler side of the railing
45. It was growing dusky when the rumble in the packing-house stopped at last and the checkers called out, “Come on in, you men
46. All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it
47. Another conjecture was that once the notorious Menyhart Orzo, who was supreme under King Rudolph in the castle, played a game of checkers with his neighbor, Boldizsar Zomolnoky
48. And ever since, the checkers are heard rattling, and the two damned souls are still playing the game in the tower-room
