Word: betting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boat feels good," Strong said yesterday. "We're sort of an underdog, and it's exciting and aggressive." You bet...
...thrill of the Oscars, we contend, is all in the anticipation. The show itself ended just as it began. A pretty lousy bet...
...Brillo hair, thick bookkeeper's spectacles, a heap of optimism and no pretenses. From his 14th-floor corner office behind security-locked glass doors in the Gen eral Motors Building, he looks out at Detroit's soaring Renaissance Center, which is the city's multimillion-dollar bet on its own future, and to him the view is bright...
What a perfect opportunity to see Beantown. I'll bet many of you have never been to the Museum of Fine Arts or the Museum of Science, or seen the USS Constitution, or walked the Freedom Trail. Hell, I know a guy who in his three years here has yet to see the Atlantic Ocean. If the thermometer reaches the fifties or sixties some day next week I'll be headed for its shores. The water may be a trifle colder than in Florida but a beach is a beach is a beach. If you want to join me, take...
...hate to recklessly give away some of the information I sweated years to gather, but if any of you follow this next bit of advice, you will never forget me. Go see jai alai--and bet your birthday. That's right, if gambling is in your blood (but there shouldn't be any room beside the alcohol) go see the "Pride of the Pyrenees" decked out in iridescent uniforms winging pelotas in a Florida jai alai fronton...