Word: betting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offense intended, though. As a peace gesture the bartender gave me a story along with my Bud. "Six or seven years ago it was," he said, "I bet four bucks on the twin daily double at Rockingham. It came through, only for eleven dollars. Eleven goddam dollars! I know a guy who won five grand on a four-horse birdcage." Al said he was so disgusted he just tore the tickets...
...pressure is all on New Hampshire, the number two seed and host to Harvard in tonight's contest at Snively Arena (8 p.m., WMEX radio, Ch. 11 T.V.) in Durham. UNH raced through the regular season ECAC schedule compiling an impressive 24-6 record and looks like a sure bet to make it to Boston Garden for the semifinals Friday...
...Gulf had contributed several million dollars to PC election campaigns). But of all the politicians in Italy the DC anti-Communists to whom the money was presumably targeted are perhaps the most corrupt. One recently retired State Department official, with wisdom evidently lacking in his superiors, remarked, "You can bet a lot of that money will end up in villas, vacation homes and Swiss bank accounts in the names of Italian politicians." As should have been apparent to the State Department by now, aiding anti-Communists in this manner is like pumping adrenalin into a dead corpse...
...trial arts, Bailey's greatest strength is crossexamination. Says Alch: "I can watch him cross-examine a witness, and he'll lose me. If I don't know where he is going, you can bet your life the witness doesn't." One typical example came in a 1968 trial in Boston in which an eyewitness identification was important to the prosecution's case. Defense Lawyer Bailey got the prosecution witness to mistakenly name a man in the courtroom as an investigator who had interviewed him. With the witness reeling but stubborn, Bailey then brought in another man and asked...
...appear on This Is Your Life while figures from his past reminisced. Said Sometime Date Marlo Thomas: "I'm reminded of the many children who were maimed and killed during the Christmas bombings of Bach Mai Hospital." "But . . . that's awful," sputters the host. Says Marlo: "You bet! Why do you think we stopped dating?" That strip has been nominated by Trudeau's syndicate for a Pulitzer Prize...