Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money, I'd bet that Black students at Harvard (and other colleges, too) who have chosen cosmopolitan identities rather than ethnocentric ones will in the future perform their Black leadership requirements better than Black students who have opted for ethnocentrism. If the good Lord's willing. I'll meet Timothy Wilkins, Anthony Ball, and Audrey Mischell [three Black student leaders] down the road in 20 years to pick up my winnings...
Theron's life veers sharply away from academic drudgery when he happens to stumble on a drunken bum in a bathroom stall at Suffolk Downs. The derelict tells him to bet on "Jesus Saves," and for the hell of it. Theron puts $250 on the filly at 127 to I odds-- and suddenly finds himself up $31,000, or "half again what [he] earned in a year." Wesley College, "according to its own smug formula, paid part in money and part in prestige...
Indeed, winning the tax-reform battle would forever make mythic Reagan's political touch. But if the rewards for the President are great, there are certainly risks. Losing could stamp him as a feckless lame duck. And at this point, failure is at least an even bet...
...muscle to bring over a guest artist or performing talent each week, providing a serious threat to A-World's dominance of the Art-with-a-capital-A scene. Nevertheless, the parties are frequented mostly by SoHoites, who still overcrowd the inadequate space at 17 Walker Street. You best bet is to fight your way to the table, take the food...
Very suddenly, Ben is home from possibly the strangest theater or operations of the war--a two-man weather station in the South Pacific--and has made his bet with Death. The South Avenue Rovers, shorthanded because of a bus accident, are playing the Dead Knights. Willie has moved in on his brother's old girlfriend, the sleazy, vindictive Marsha. Hal, called away for a classified defense assignment that has almost broken Helen's heart, is on his way home in a plane with no gas. Joe "Iron Man" McGinnity of the New York Giants is up, and a girl...