Word: crazed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without extracting a commission. But the biggest bite is clearly in lotteries, and the biggest of all is New York's 60%. Counting both the state's cut and operating expenses, the takeout in Maine and Ohio is 55%; in New Hampshire, which started the legal lottery craze in 1964, it is 50%. To get a piece of what is left, a ticket buyer still has to compete with the number of other tickets against him. The odds for winning any prize are not good. In New York, for instance, the chances are 240,000 to 1 against...
...years ago, students were content to lock their bikes with the not-very-reliable combination of chain and padlock. But thefts mushroomed along with the ten-speed bicycle craze, and students began removing their front wheel when they parked, buying heavier and heavier chains, and eventually looking for totally new kinds of locks...
...still growing. Last year Americans spent $100 million on tennis balls, $200 million on togs, $230 million on new racquets, stringing, etc. Close to $400 million went to new court construction. Prize money and promotion for pro tournaments and expanding TV coverage, which helped foster the tennis craze, came to more than $10 million...
...combination of high-speed action and the potential for a big payoff has led to a jai alai craze in Connecticut. Bridgeport and Hartford have overflowing frontons six nights a week. Afternoon matches have been added; these, too, play to capacity crowds. On the night of Hurricane Belle, 1,000 patrons showed up for jai alai in Hartford although the management had deferred to the storm and canceled the program...
...author of the satire Candide, is preparing a missive on that matter for the Academic null He plans to ridicule his countrymen's Anglophilia, specifically a recent translation of Shakespeare that praises the English playwright as a "creative divinity." Ironically, it was Voltaire, now 82, who promoted the craze when in 1734 he made the first translations of Shakespeare into French. Now he is alarmed that he may have subverted la gloire de France by recognizing "sparks of genius" in someone "so barbarous, so low, so unbridled and so absurd" as William Shakespeare. Voltaire has decreed that the scenes...