Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loved each other very much," an assertion that contradicted local gossip that their relationship was on the skids. The word was that Sabich had ordered Longet to leave because he was tired of her jealous, inhibiting manner. Prosecutor Anderson claimed to have a witness whom Spider had bet $100 that Longet would be gone by April, but he never produced...
...long since concluded, however, that most Americans were -and still are-weirdly oblivious to what happened in Viet Nam. Even the Kentucky mother of a boy who came home emotionally bent by the war remarks: "They talk about those 50,000 boys that were killed there, but I bet half that number would have been killed if they'd been at home, killed in automobiles." Emerson used to show people a photograph of a wounded soldier on a stretcher, touching his eyes with his hands. She writes: ''A lot of people said they had seen...
...lose; one of each, toss again). As Murdoch is quoted by his biographer, onetime London Journalist Simon Regan: "I love to play it. You bet on a run. You go in with a couple of quid and two, four, eight, you double it all the time. If you're betting on, say, heads, you can make hundreds if you get a run. Then it comes down tails and you're all through. The real game is the gamble on exactly when to stop...
...best bet for exam-watchers will come on January 25 at 9:15 when the major pre-med course, Chemistry 20, more endearingly known as "Organic," meets for its examination. Spectators at this exam are advised to bring molecular model kits with which to build functional airplanes and ships while real students try to construct benzene rings...
...true that sport proceeds without a script. My hunch is that Oakland will defeat Minnesota, but that is a hunch and nothing more. (Bet at your own risk.) It is true that the athlete, unlike the movie star, takes real risks. When his knee ligaments tear, his scream is agony, not acting. But our perception of such things is increasingly reduced to a 19-in. picture tube. With its illimitable superficiality, television forever mingles illusion and reality. So our new perception of sport, and our children's basic perception of sport, suggests that a game is one more...