Word: bettor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sihanouk at first ordained that, to give the operation a bit of class, each bettor must wear a tie. Standards slipped quickly. The basic gaming uniform now is simply shirt, long trousers and shoes. For barefoot peasants who have the dels to gamble, a rent-a-sandal business thrives just outside the casino entrance...
...Wisconsin, the wise political bettor keeps his wallet shut. It is the state that produced both the La-Follettes and Joe McCarthy, where the traditionally Republican electorate sends liberal Democrats to Con gress, where the Progressive movement is still a living memory, and where George Wallace captured one-third of the Democratic presidential-primary vote...
...Fager, beaten only by two-year old champion Successor, defeated Damascus in the Gotham Mile last May. But on the basis of current form and classic breeding, Damascus will probably be the bettor's choice over the lightly-raced Dr. Fager...
...Millions of Brazilians play it every day, and almost all have at least a nodding acquaintance with their local bicheiros. "If you see two shacks lost somewhere in the backlands," a Brazilian diplomat once observed, "you can bet that a bicheiro lives in one of them and a steady bettor in the other...
...across a state line. Powers' solution was not to issue tickets at all. Purchasers had to go to one of the state's two race tracks or 49 liquor stores, where, on payment of $3, a clerk activated a machine which exposed a ticket on which the bettor wrote his name and address. The machine thereupon swallowed the ticket and issued him an "acknowledgement," which presumably may be transported anywhere, sent through the mail, or even thrown away. The rolls of tickets were collected from the machines, microfilmed and stored in a bank vault...