Word: betting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, Nigel John Davies has been a builder's laborer, a bodyguard, a fairgrounds boxer, an assistant at a beauty parlor, a bet taker at a London bookmaking shop, a salesman of nudie films, a shorthand typist, a paint stripper, a bric-a-brac salesman at the Chelsea antique market, and an interior decorator. He has also been unemployed. But all that was before he met a pencil-thin 15-year-old named Lesley Hornby and said: "You're like a twig. I'll call you Twiggy...
...Nikolayev was obviously timed to coincide with President Nixon's request for more defense funds. It is possible that the vessel, which is about half complete, may turn out to be a tanker or a big cargo freighter. But some Allied naval experts are already willing to bet that the Pentagon is right, and that the ship really is Russia's first attack carrier (it already has two cruiser-sized helicopter carriers). If so, the decision to build an attack carrier represents a dramatic and fundamental shift in Moscow's naval strategy, with profound consequences...
...important music is being written today. It was in Schoenberg's and Stravinsky's generation that the decline set in. Béla Bartók is a musical personality of some stature, but Stravinsky is the Rimsky-Korsakov of this generation. I am willing to bet that in the 21st century Stravinsky won't be played very much...
...Crimson fencers lost matches with Columbia and CCNY in rather unimpressive fashion. The 20-7 loss to Columbia was not a great surprise to even the most optimistic of Harvard men. The Lions are the strongest team in the country, a good bet to be at or near the top of the NCAA's when the season is over...
...When Gilligan appeared at the door, she exclaimed: "Why John, what are you doing here?" The answer was quickly apparent. Gilligan informed Muskie that he had almost decided to support him for President-so long as Muskie was willing to put up a scrappy primary fight in Ohio. "You bet!" responded Muskie, obviously delighted...