Word: wager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play with words. My humor lies elsewhere, I think. What the Center means, is that the Center itself, as an institution, does no classified research. If you look very closely, however, you will find a safe for classified research in Professor Cheney's office. I would be willing to wager that there exists a similar one in many other offices in the Center. Seymour Martin Lipset did work for the Air Force. But heals, I have not been in his office...
...Berg is the best trainer of claiming and allowance horses in the country. Every time one of his horses goes to post it is trying for part of the purse. Should one wander North on route 93 to Rockingham Park some afternoon, he might find that a small wager on the Van Berg entries was money well-invested...
Wilson's challenge included an invitation to a round of "sociable drinking" after the frisbee match, with the opposing groups to "wager all the beverage consumed by Victor and Vanquished alike upon the outcome...
...justice, or Hippolyta as a content and passive fiancee, are due for the nicest kind of surprise; for in troubling to treat A Midsummer Night's Dream to a "new adaptation," Mayer has restored to us a worthy (and terribly funny) text in which many of us, I would wager, long ago lost interest...
What happened to the large contingent of Ionian Greeks in the Persian army? Did they cover up their treachery by fighting for Darius against the Athenians, or did they change sides? There is no information, but one may wager that they contributed to the Persian defeat. How will history deal with the Viet Cong, the north and south Vietnamese and the Americans? Richard N.Frye Aga Khan Profesor of Iranian