Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revelry opened with a parade of 70,000 Afghan soldiers accoutered with German helmets and a weird assortment of old and new British matériel; above the parade wobbled a rickety umbrella of old Italian biplanes. Tribesmen who had lugged a season's karakul skins into market bet their season's earnings on horse races and ram fights. The Western influence was apparent in the gambling, too: the most popular gadget shot darts from an air gun at a moving disc...
...Barbotte is a fast-action dice game in which the players bet against each other, with the house taking a cut from each bet. Balbo, a variation of barbotte, is played with cards instead of dice...
...suffered last week in Senator Burton K. Wheeler's defeat. Gloomed one Democrat with a deep, professional interest in his party's fortunes: "I don't know why the Boss had to get himself mixed up in that one (the Montana primary). But you can bet your salary we're going to try to steer him away from any such foolish moves in the future...
...right to label a wine as a "Bordeaux," even if it had been diluted with inferior Algerian grapes? The cheerful worriers were delegates to an international wine convention which met in the back rooms of the Palace. When Ernie Bevin was told about their presence, he sighed wistfully: "I bet they got away to dinner at a respectable hour...
...smile to the strongly pro-Budge crowd of 9,000 in the stands, Champion Bobby Riggs marched out of the stadium with his blonde wife on his arm and lipstick on his face. His week's work had been worth $3,100 in prize money, plus a $500 bet he won on himself...