Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the Redskins are rated as 2½-point favorites, the nation's No. 1 fan, Richard Nixon, offered a safer prognostication. "I think it's an even bet...
Adiv returned home with instructions to pass on further information on Israeli military operations. But Israel's intelligence agency-commonly called Shin Bet from its Hebrew initials-has infiltrated radical groups. And when Shin Bet learned that Adiv's organization was planning a move of some sort, it smashed the ring...
...prices, housewives might have to spend more at the grocery store next year for such basic items as bread, flour and meat. Grain dealers and agribusiness giants such as Ralston Purina and Quaker Oats sell and buy future contracts on the exchange-and each transaction really amounts to a bet on what commodities will actually sell for in one to nine months. Since November, the 124-year-old exchange's volume record and many of its price records have been broken as frantic traders have bid up many farm products. Early this year, for example, wheat was selling...
...specialty events, the Cadets offer slightly more competition for the Crimson, but even here Harvard's strength is overwhelming. Dave Brumwell, who appears to be in the best shape of his career, is an easy bet in his two specialities, the 200-yd, Breast stroke and the 200-yd individual medley. Freshmen Tom Wolf, who set a University record in the 200-yd, back stroke in his first varsity leads it straight back contingent, but John Craig and Roy Geronomous may have to work slightly harder for a sweep in the butterfly...
...dispensing Hungarian wine to anyone in the immediate vicinity, and rubbing his hands together in anticipation. "We'll go to Gotham City tonight," he was saying to his brown-haired girlfriend. "We'll spend a big chunk of Champagne's hard-earned money." The Harvard guy had remembered that bet, and had taken appropriate steps. He had signed up for a three-day school ashore two months in advance, had cut out of the school a day early, and had flown to Boston on the 10 a.m. Eastern jet from Jacksonville, stopping at Washington and LaGuardia...