Word: wager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mental defectives; eight states also exclude paupers. The same goes officially for Mississippi's nontaxed Indians and unofficially for most of its Negroes, who comprise 45% of the population. Still disqualified in Nevada and Virginia are "those engaging in duels" and in Florida "persons interested in any wager depending on the result of any election." But more typical of the trend is a new federal court order forbidding Texas to disqualify thousands of regular residents who happen to be U.S. servicemen from other states...
...wager that Audrey will mistakenly assume, silly thing, that Cary is the homicidal thief. There will be a long chase through the Paris Metro, which might prompt one to wonder how any healthy, adult male could fail to attain sufficient speed to catch frail Miss Hepburn clacking along in four-inch heels. In any case, it shall ultimately transpire that Cary is working for the govt. of the US of A (trying merely to repossess its rightful funds) and that the real killer is Audrey's trusted CIA agent, who isn't the CIA agent after all, but only borrowed...
...narrative or simply vanish, presumably missing in action. There are no heroes. In one unconvincing scene, a muddled plea for brotherhood, G.I.s gape idly while two Negroes in uniform are beaten up by drawling American soldiers enjoying a "coon hunt." To complete a $50 wager, a couple of the boys gun down a puppy. There are looting episodes too. But when Foreman's lads grow misty-eyed over a music box waltz, they prove they are vandals with heart...
...loved to strut down Broadway wearing 2,548 of his favorite gems, all at once. Lillian Russell ("that woman,"" Saratogians called her) pedaled around town on a gold-plated bike. E. Berry Wall, "the King of the Dudes," once changed clothes 40 times in one day to win a wager. And John ("Bet-a-Million") Gates was the talk of the town when he won $150,000 in one night at the faro tables; counting his afternoon's fortunes at the race track, it left him minus...
Professional bears, they are usually big round-lot (100 shares or more) speculators who wager that the market will drop. They borrow stock through other brokers and sell it at, say, $10 a share, hoping to replace the borrowed shares later by buying them back at a lower price, perhaps $5. Their profit would thus be $5 a share. Anyone can sell short-Joseph P. Kennedy reportedly made a killing doing so in 1929-but it is a dangerous game, little suited to the fainthearted or the unsophisticated...