Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweeping over a sandy escarpment called "God's Dyke" on the Rann's northern lip, a brigade of Pakistani infantry crushed an Indian army outpost at Biar Bet, also occupied a ruined mud-walled fort called Kanjarkot in what India insists is its own territory. India and Pakistan each claimed to have inflicted at least 300 casualties on the other, and Indian Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, looking far tougher than his frail figure indicates, threatened to invade the Pakistani side of the Rann. Both nations began talking of general mobilization...
...Fine," said Vellucci, "I'll bet that saves you a pretty penny. How bout spending a little of that money for a new stove for one of the settlement houses in East Cambridge." Sure, agreed the businessman (an executive of a gas company), probably thinking that the promise would be forgotten within the hour...
...City proposed an urban renewal project for the year. The local residents strongly objected; so did Vellucci. Now, a new plan devised with cooperation of a representative local neighborhood group, has been worked out. It has Vellucci's support. If it ever loses that support, you can bet it will also have lost the neighborhood's endorsement...
Last week, aware that the most flights over a given route usually capture the most business, three big airlines placed a dazzling bet on new equipment designed to give them a competitive edge in the race to attract even more Americans to the skies...
...flown into the base for publicity purposes. One is a blonde (Janine Gray), one a brunette (Anjanette Comer), and that is the easiest way to tell them apart. It doesn't really matter. As a showcase of young talent, Melts appears to be the year's best bet for instant anonymity...