Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok said yesterday, in a special telephone relay, that he would bet an unspecified amount of Boston baked beans on the Red Sox to win the World Series, in response to a challenge from Warren Bennis, president of the University of Cincinnati...
John R. Silber, president of Boston University, said yesterday that in his telegram reply to Bennis he wrote "you would get schrod if you bet with me. In defiance of the Red Tide from Cincinnati I will bet six live lobsters...
Kenneth Ryder, president of Northeastern, said he had not heard of the bet but that to him "it sounds more like an advertisement for the sausages than a genuine bet...
...What you saw was next to death," Ali gasped after the fight. "He's the greatest fighter of all time-next to me." Later, Ali said to newsmen: "I'll bet you thought two old warhorses couldn't do much." They could, and Ali earned $4.5 million for his pain; Frazier picked up $2 million in balm...
...Simpson is skittering along to his first thousand yards of the fall, the Steelers' Front Four have begun chewing up opposition quarterbacks, and Oklahoma already seems a sure bet for the Orange Bowl. The nation's ballparks have been invaded by autumn, and the 1975 major league baseball season ought to be over. Not quite. The big games that count most are just about to begin. This weekend the divisional play-offs open with the Pirates playing the Reds in the National League. Oakland, champions in the American League West, had to wait for torrential rains...