Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sending his only son into the everlasting hellfire." Oscar's financial salvation comes when a well-to-do classmate looking for company knocks on his door by accident and then remarks, "I say, Odd Bod, do you like a flutter?" Slowly, Oscar realizes that he is being invited to bet on horses at Epsom Downs. He would indeed like a flutter: "He knew that God would give him money at the races...
...probably a good bet that people will still be talking about Don and Jerry a couple of years from...
When I play tennis with someone better than me, I play a better game. Though some may explain this phenomenon in terms of the large bet I'm usually hustled into, others see it as a matter of rising to the situation. Whether the motivation for rising to expectations is a desire to please or merely an aversion to embarrassment, the situation as it exists at Harvard imposes stifling constraints...
...drivel -- and it resonates that way from the stage -- its search for meaning touches some inarticulate longing in the secretary who is given it to read and, eventually, in her boss, who for a while joins her quixotic crusade. He starts out trying to seduce her on a bet and ends up considering a move that will surely destroy his career. Like many a cheap-jack hustler, he momentarily finds religion. But his faith in the book, and the woman who made him believe in it, seems to be still more illusions to be stripped away...
...Mitterrand 48% to 52% in a two-way race, they also showed that Barre would fare worse, losing 46% to 54%. The Le Point findings represented a sharp setback for Barre, 64, who had based his candidacy on the contention that he was the center right's best bet to beat Mitterrand. Barre gamely sought to fire up his campaign in the final days, adding factory tours and cafe stops, but the momentum appeared to remain with Chirac. Said a Chirac campaign official of Barre's comeback chances: "We believe it is too late...