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Word: bets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hits in four at-bats and made a fielding error in a 3-2 Pirate loss. Still, Tanner was not about to eat his words. Parker himself was calmly philosophical. "There's 161 games to go," said he. "I think I can improve my average." You can bet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Plutocrat from Pittsburgh | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...Yale is about the only other boat we have to worry about," sophomore seven-seat Anne Benton said yesterday. Still, the Eli women lost only one rower from last year's eight that crushed the varsity by 16 seconds in New Haven, and that looked like a good bet to win the cancelled Sprints...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: Renaissance at Weld? | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...spring season, last year's Crimson men's tennis captain Todd Lundy bet Penn State skipper Mark Darby that Harvard would beat the Nittany Lions, 7-2, this spring...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Netmen Trounce Penn State As Chaikovsky, Pompan Star | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

...Penguins played way over their heads this year, and should extend the Sabres to three tough games. Buffalo looks like a good darkhorse bet for the Cup, if goalkeeper Don Edwards performs...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: NHL Second Season to Open Tonight | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

...looking for a good cry, The Champ might seem a likely bet to deliver the goods. This movie has every tear-jerking device known to Hollywood, and then some. Its central characters are an adorable eight-year-old boy and his loving dad, a has-been boxer. The action is pure hokum. Will Dad throw off his addictions to gambling and booze and make a comeback in the ring? Will Dad's exwife, now a remarried society lady, try to regain custody of the son she once abandoned? Will Dad and Mom fall in love again? Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tear Jerks | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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