Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bases loaded with only one out, Third Baseman Doug DeCinces and then Grich faltered in the clutch. After a couple of innings of outfielders' banging walls like cymbals clashing, Henderson's sacrifice fly finally and fittingly won. "I got no place to sleep tonight," Mauch said numbly. "I bet my house that DeCinces would get that run in from third...
Every year Parker challenges the Harvard rowers to guess which day of the year the ice on the Charles River will first break. And every year, Parker wins the bet...
...traditionally sets up a problem and then lets you watch the characters try to solve it. Arnold just stomps the problem into shapeless bits. Imagine that right after Rhett sees Scarlett at the party at Twelve Oaks he grabs her, drags her off, and rapes her. Brutal, horrible, you bet, but it gets you right to the credits...
...Bet you hadn...
Besides, Harvard is not all a matter of social problems and cosmic issues. Some Harvard graduates with very long memories still recall the day when Lothrop Withington Jr., '42, swallowed a goldfish to win a $10 bet and set off a national fad that is better forgotten. Others will always remember the day in 1968 when mighty Yale was leading by 29-13 with only 42 seconds remaining in the Game, and then all kinds of incredible things began happening. The Crimson headline next day: HARVARD WINS, 29-29. Others remember less epic events: sculling on the Charles, drinking...