Word: bettor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election eve one big-time bettor offered $100,000 to $50,000 that Antonio Prío would win. Confident President Carlos Prío counseled brother Antonio: "You do your best, and when the time comes, I'll give the final push." But a last-minute speech by the President was not enough...
Prompt telegraphic reports were useful only in "relieving the anxiety of the. bettor," he said. When Bookmaker Carroll was asked if he opposed the bill, he replied: "It is a matter of complete indifference...
...bettors choice was Freebooter, a coffee-colored gelding and half-brother of an Irish plow horse. But the sentimental favorite of thousands of British housewives was Princess Elizabeth's Monaveen. Last week, in Aintree's bright spring sunshine, Britain's royal family peered down from the roof of the clubhouse as anxiously as any two-shilling bettor as the 49 starters crowded to the post...