Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dawson was cleared, but betting remains very much on the minds of Super Bowl fans. Super Bowl means time to put the money down, whether it is for $1 office pools or high-roller stakes. It is the biggest day of the year for bookies; estimates of the amount wagered range as high as $260 million. At the Stardust Lounge in Las Vegas, where Super Bowl betting is done legally, fans flock to the windows. Says the lounge's manager: "They'll come here out of the cracks of walls?from Texas, the Midwest, everywhere?to watch the game...
After making a bad bet on the horses in the London of 1820, a reckless dandy named Scrope Berdmore Davies crammed his personal papers into a trunk, stashed it in a bank vault and skipped the country. Doing a spot of housecleaning at the Pall Mall branch of Barclays Bank the other day, officials opened the unclaimed trunk and turned up one of the literary finds of the century. Among the treasures: an original copy of the third canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by Davies' pal Lord Byron; early manuscripts of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont...
...bet the Publetter [Dec. 6] writer is a breakfast-eating, Brooks Brothers type. If your man had misspent his youth to better effect he would know that a fourflusher is not a cheater, as the Pub letter alleges, but a poor old bluffer trying to do his best in a stud game with four cards of one suit facing up (that's a four-flush) and nothing but dogmeat in the hole (what he needs for a legitimate flush is five cards of one suit...
...Bet you think writing sports is pretty boring, huh? Well you're wrong, pal. You wouldn't believe the mail that floods my office daily; people ask me about everything--from football to fooling around--and for weeks I've been keeping it a secret from my reading public...
...Israeli aggression. Now things depend on Carter. It's up to him to decide whether he will continue this policy against our displaced people. I hope Carter will have some understanding of our people and our cause. But I don't know whether the Palestinian people should bet on this...