Word: wager
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after-tax estate of more than $8,000,000 when he died in 1930. About 90% of it went to Paul Getty's mother, $1,000 to charity and only $500,000 to Getty because the father disapproved of his marital escapades. Nevertheless, Getty persuaded his mother to wager the family's stake on the chance of becoming an oil major-leaguer by buying into oil companies. He took over the Pacific Western Oil Corp., then liquidated its $12 million investment portfolio, sold some of its leases, and borrowed heavily to raise cash for bigger game. Quietly...
...foreign policy was like the house policy of the gambling casino: cover all bets, wager everybody he is wrong and depend on the constant and modest profit of the house odds inherent in the dice or deck or wheel. Our new one seems to be the house manager's asking his syndicate to let the bouncer carry a pistol...
...Heavy Wager. The big if in the industry is whether an upsurge in auto buying will start another scramble for steel, and a shortage like last year's. That will not be known for sure until spring, when automakers learn whether expectations for a 6,500,000-car year are being met. Prospects for meeting that target looked good last week. Ford Motor Co. said that in the first ten days of January it sold 59% more Fords and 30% more Lincolns than the like period last year, the best year-opening period for Fords in history. Steelmen themselves...
Contrast the picture of courageous Bishop Ordass shown in your Oct. 22 Religion section with the pictures of Christ. I'll wager the true Christ looked more like Bishop Ordass and the Middle Ages' conception of Christ than the silly, grinning, effeminate, puffy-cheeked companion by Painter Ivan Pusecker...
...magic chemistry of courage, anger and desperation that makes men wager their lives for an ideal fired Hungary into revolution last week. Unarmed, unorganized, unaided from outside, not even fully aware at first of what might be involved in their deeds, the Hungarian people rolled back the tide of Communism. They overthrew a government. They took on the Soviet army. They fought well and long enough to win at least the pledged right to be free of Moscow dictation and free of one-party dictatorship. I hey suffered by the thousands and died by the hundreds...