Word: wager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Socialists have lost their wager on the Union of the Left as well as bungled their attempt to be both a catch-all and a rigorous ideological party. The problems they have stated have to be solved by their opponents, who have failed to do so in the past...
...culture and his deepest beliefs. And it is all the more interesting because Father Thomas O'Neill is not just a little bit like Ireland itself: religious but unwilling to be stereotyped as such, bothered about his past, uncertain of his future, and unwilling to make the final wager in blood to achieve what he has been told all his life he must do, O'Neill is very much the typical Irishman of the modern era. In that sense, it borders on the tragic that Reid did not see fit to give O'Neill to the world without the necessary...
...five years to get potential buyers to choose between a long-range, three-engine plane seating eight across and a shorter range, two-engine model seating six across. Both had supporters, but Boeing was unable to get enough advance orders for either one to make the $2 billion production wager worthwhile...
...Derby on his father's name, even if he had not won a lot of previous races. But who is the father of Seattle Slew's jockey? It is quite possible that the elder Cruguef has never been to the flats, even for the purpose of placing a friendly wager...
...illicit gambling. Yet in one sense, legalizing gambling is a healthy recognition of reality, one of society's periodic and necessary adjustments of its laws to changing mores and unchanging human nature. Almost by definition, such evolutions solve some problems and create others. It is far too early to wager on whether the U.S. will win or lose as gambling goes legit ? but anyone who hankers to bet on it can surely find a taker...