Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sophomore year, and even though the stats showed only 22 receptions and 70 yards rushing, no one made a bigger impression than Ron Cuccia. Fast, sure-handed, strong-armed and harder to catch than a winning lottery ticket, Cuccia was an electric presence on the field--and a sure bet to make himself felt in the years to come...
...studio is buzzing. Because of the day's unusual guests-Begin and the giant sparkler-guards are everywhere: a dozen from the U.S. Secret Service, half a dozen from Israel's Shin Bet and another half a dozen from Cartier, which is showing off the diamond as big as the Ritz. Shortly before 7, Hartman comes downstairs, dressed in typically nondescript gray tweed jacket, dark trousers and brown loafers; he does not fancy himself a clotheshorse. He is told that Steve Bell, Good Morning's Washington-based newscaster, wants to talk with him, and Hartman takes...
...Duehay said he thinks Cambridge could implement a "creative" lottery. "Maybe people could bet on the outcome of the Harvard-Yale game," he said...
...nothing else about today's Harvard-Yale showdown is certain, you can bet that Yale senior defensive end Jack Kelley tried to remember to bring his sandals to Cambridge. It's been a ritual with Kelley for quite some time now--sun or snow, at home or away, he dons those sandals for the walk to the pre-game breakfast every Saturday morning...
...have temporarily vacated, an elderly and a youthful Home Office bureaucrat deliver monologues to each other that epitomize stereotypical visions of England and America. The break is a welcome one. Keith Rogal as Bernard-- the senescent and near-deaf senior officer whose droning, endless tale of a five-pound bet with Lloyd George is by far the evening's funniest sequence-- turns hesitation into a form of comic torture, and uses stock mannerisms of old age to excellent effect...