Word: staked
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...helpful Fool's Glossary, means a "loss as explained to family, friends, and neighbors"). This, he felt, was because he did not know what he was doing. His new idea was logical: take a year to learn as much as possible about investing, then live solvently ever after. His stake was about $16,500, accumulated by selling an old car and a used dinghy and by throwing in the first wad of a healthy advance from the sort of publisher you would, on first thought, like to see across a poker table...
While the fathers were doing the nation's business, the sons were walking their own paths. George Bush was making his stake in the Texas oil patch. The tall, kindly Pres Bush passed on the stories of a life he relished when the grand men of the Senate's inner club held sway. His son could not resist Washington...
Princeton does not have the speed of, say, Harvard. Nor does it have the size of, say, St Lawrence or RPI. The Tigers will have to rely on sharpshooters Messuri and Polaski to keep them on the scoreboard and freshman Mark Salisbury to stake out his net well...
...insist that we are not absolutists, slaves to a literal reading of the First Amendment," Abrams said. "And then we invariably rule in favor of the First Amendment interests at stake," he said...
...going off to Andover and Yale, Dole was walking to the public schools of Russell, Kans., and working his way through the University of Kansas at Lawrence and Washburn University of Topeka. As Bush went to prove his manhood in a West Texas oil field with a family stake of $500,000, Dole was serving as county attorney of Russell, where an unhappy part of his job was approving welfare payments to his grandparents...