Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eagle defense, however, is another story. ECAC opponents have averaged six goals a game against the porous B.C. defense, and the Harvard scoring machine is a sure bet to keep intact the Eagles' goals-allowed average...
...Everywhere I go they make the same demonstration," Heitmann said of those who were gathering to protest the overthrow of the Allende government and the junta's present repressive policies. "I bet the slogans they have here are the same they have all over the world. We have proof--it's only a matter of listening to Radio Moscow. These demonstrators here obey a central agency in New York." He touched on the same theme an hour later when, during his speech in a room of the Harvard Club, chants of "Viva Allende" were clearly audible from the 200 protesters...
...armed forces. Although the stuff is getting scarce, an easy way to save money is to go army surplus. The finest pants available are still those army wind pants developed in some Army hinterland testing center. If you plan to hit the frequently wet northeast slopes, then the best bet for boots, is still the army mouse boot--Korean vintage--if you can still find a pair. Some itchy wool thermal underwear and a couple of wool sweaters still do the job better than most commercial products. Wool retains its warmth when wet--as anybody who has awakened to frozen...
...snort about whichever bowl Penn has "bullshat its way into this year," and about whichever regional favorite of theirs could "boot the Nits out of the Top Fifty." After allowing enough time for the rhetoric to billow up and fog the windows over completely, the men call, silently, for bet-backed talk or a little silence from the visitors. The bowl stakes, as well as the gas bill, are reckoned before the students hurry out into the night. The low drone of conversation starts up again, undisturbed until the next carload of collegians arrives...
P.L.O. are to kill civilians, and their prime targets are athletes (Munich), tourists (Lod, Athens, Rome), women and children (school buses, Qiryat Shemona, Ma'alot, Bet She'an). Nobody, including the U.N., can change the basic fact that by its avowed goal and its tactics, the P.L.O. is a murderers' gang...