Word: wager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, he expelled a New York Ranger hockey player-Billy ("The Kid") Taylor-from professional hockey for life. The charge: making a wager on a hockey game, which is an infraction of the rules. Campbell also suspended a Boston Bruins player-Don Gallinger-for associating with people like Parole Violator Jimmy Tamer, who wouldn't be mowing his lawn again for some time to come...
Most Britons, as Lord Byron once put it, "till by losing rendered sager, will back their own opinions by a wager." Some have even been known to back their wagers by some sage manipulation, like doping a horse or marking cards...
...Picasso took on as aim the fantastic wager of destroying the phantom of 'official' beauty and substituting his own personal concept of beauty. He pursues and discovers beauty even in objects regarded as ugly-just as light sometimes lends to sordid things effects of gorgeous color...
When Cooper finds Lorenz, he discovers that the Gestapo had ways of cracking even heroes, that those once tortured seldom successfully faced a second dose. Said one Gestapo victim, "indicating the gaudy Christ-on-the-Cross on the wall behind him, 'I'll wager that even He would not have undertaken it a second time. Not for anybody...
...good deal of intelligent derivation from Dickens' inspired illustrators, Cruikshank and "Phiz" (Alec Guinness as Pocket is a Cruikshank in the flesh). Besides the principal actors, all of whom are excellent, the most notable (and equally good) are Bernard Miles-another living Cruikshank-as the blacksmith, Anthony Wager as the boy Pip, O. B. Clarence as a deaf-&-daft gaffer, and 17-year-old Jean Simmons as Estella in her teens...