Word: wager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine and knew he made a barn-sized target as the state's only avowed liberal in Congress. A good many wise birds in South Carolina politics, who quote the old maxim "It's not how you stand, but how you run," were ready to wager that the voters would easily remember Hugo Sims and his blue trailer...
...Mighty fine likker," allowed one Senator tentatively. After rolling it over on his tongue he added: "But there's something in that barrel that gives it a slight metallic taste." The other Senator took a dipperful, disagreed. "It's a slight leathery taste," he said. Laying a wager as to which was right, they kept dipping until the barrel was empty, then turned it over to see what was in it. Out dropped a leather-headed tack...
What graduates feel that way, Mr. Pond? Not I, certainly, nor a good many other Harvard graduates, I'll wager. You give me the answer in the next sentence--"the conservative element...
...wager came close to costing Robinson Brainard '48 his life Thursday, when he sank to the bottom of the Blockhouse swimming pool after swimming three lengths under water...
...rule one has small opportunity to criticize TIME, but I will wager that many a photographer the country over wept when he saw the group picture of your writers in the Anniversary issue...