Word: antedates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actor Ken Howard anted up $700 for four tickets to the next Harvard-Yale game, after declaring that "If there's one thing I hate, it's a Harvard fairweather fan." Another couple forked over $2500 for an eight course gourmet dinner for eight.
During the past 25 years, millions of students have received Federal Government loans to help defray their college expenses. But 1.5 million of them have since flunked a morality test: they have failed to repay their debts, leaving Uncle Sam holding the bag for $1.8 billion. Last year Education Department...
Six months ago, the Soviet Union was no more than an irrelevant bystander in the Middle East poker game. But since then, Moscow has anted up with a vengeance by resupplying Syria with large quantities of highly sophisticated weapons. The Soviet aim has been not merely to replace equipment lost...
Casino Owner Harvey Gross, 75, anted up $3 million in $100 bills and sent it by helicopter early the next morning to a rendezvous point. Once there, the chopper's pilot received new instructions from the extortionists to head for a strobe light flashing along a highway in northern...
Bullionaire Bunker Hunt, for example, anted up 69,485 head of cattle from ranches in seven states and more than 700 Thoroughbred race horses, including some with appropriate names like Goofed, Extravagant and Overdrawn. Bunker also kicked in 65 Krugerrands, 60 bags of silver coins, 1,000 Austrian gold Ducats...