Word: wager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bennis presented the challenge to the presidents of Harvard B.U., B.C., UMass, Northeastern, and MIT. His wager was a case of metts, a Cincinnati sausage, against any similar Boston delicacy...
Jerome Wiener, president of MIT, was also unfamiliar with the wager. He was, however, "certain" that the Red Sox would win the World Series, he said...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday he was not aware of the wager or the politics behind Bok's decision but that he thought that the Reds would win the World Series...
...Boston Globe recently reported similar bets between the governors of Massachusetts and Ohio and the mayors of Boston and Cincinnati. Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis bet 20 pounds of Massachusetts cod against Ohio Gov. James Rhode's wager of a bushel of corn, ten pounds of Lake Erie perch, and ten pounds of Ohio River catfish...
...good chance" may seem a very modest resurrection for so much suffering. Like the old Armenians, Arlen is making another wager: on stoicism as the proper response to despair. It is both an honorable bet and a long shot - the only arguable portion of a unique and grieving book...