Word: wager
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Devotees of Camus will welcome a permanent copy of the superb dialogue with Jean Block-Michel, which was repdinted from in the November 23, 1957 issue of The Reporter. Here, in a translation that lacks the power of the Reporter version, it is retitled The Wager of Our Generation. Serious readers can find no more precise or cogent summary of the values that moved Camus throughout his life...
...Declined Wager. In Paris, the methodical police finally tracked down some letters that Raymond's ex-wife had typed on her missing Hermes. They matched exactly the ransom notes sent the Peugeots. Last week the police moved in on the chalet and arrested Raymond Rolland and Ingelise in bed. Their companions, who had already set off for Paris, were picked up on the road. After 45 hours' interrogation, Raymond Rolland fainted, was revived with smelling salts, and then confessed. Pierre Larcher soon confessed too. Frogmen dove into the Seine and recovered the Hermes typewriter where Raymond said...
...good Englishman never jokes when so serious a matter as a wager is in question," replied Phileas Fogg...
...Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days It was enough to titillate the great storyteller's ghost. The wackiest ocean race of all time, it started in a cozy English club, the consequence of a five-bob (70?) wager between a balding ex-commando and a bespectacled manufacturer of pocket maps. The wager made, War Hero H. G. ("Blondie") Hasler and Mapmaker Francis Chichester approached the prestigious Royal Western Yacht Club for official sanction. Their casual proposition: to sail the perilous Atlantic, from Plymouth to New York, into the teeth of the prevailing westerlies -one lone...
...thoughts," he said some time ago, "continually return to the place where my ancestors have come from and where I spent most of my childhood . . . For me, and I am willing to wager for everyone else, the road one takes, no matter how far it goes, leads to a contradictory sort of frustration, because it always leads to accidental beginnings. It always turns toward home...