Word: betting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparent that people who bet on the horses also bet on the dogs. It is not apparent that people who bet on the trotters bet on the dogs. It is apparent that Rhode Island, which depends largely on Massachusetts residents, should be allowed a seven month racing season while the remaining five are split between Massachusetts and New Hampshire...
...lunar voyage. M.I.T. Geophysicist Frank Press wagered a case of champagne on his conviction that the moon actually has quakes. Certain that the moon specimens will show some evidence that there was once water on the moon, Dr. Persa Bell, director of NASA's Lunar Receiving Lab, bet a skeptical colleague a bottle of Scotch...
...almost axiomatic that even if everyone in a city is in favor of more low-income housing, just about no one wants a housing project in his neighborhood. If a zoning change is requested to build a housing project on any given site, it's a good bet that thirty neighbors of the site will come down to the council to tell them why the project would ruin the neighborhood. It is difficult to build a countervailing force to such opposition; no one is assured that, if the specific housing project is built, he or his aged mother will have...
More than 50,000 South Koreans watched the launch on a giant screen in Seoul. David Threlfall, 26, waited in London to collect his bounty from the bookmaking firm of William Hill Ltd.; he bet $24 in 1964 that men would land on the moon by 1971, and got 1,000-to-l odds. In Beirut on the morning of launch, a woman gave birth to her eleventh child-and promptly named him Apollo Eleven Salim. The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheik Ahmed Hereidi; said he approved lunar exploration because "the Koran urges Moslems to look up from their earthly...
...Best Bet: M. H.'s GALAXY. Long Shot: Game Profit in ninth...