Word: wager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With those words in his televised address to the nation last week, Richard Nixon declared the greatest bet of his lifetime of high-risk politics, making a desperate and dangerous wager on his place in history. The stakes were nothing less than his survival in office and his ultimate image as a man and as a President. In still another effort "to put Watergate behind us," to show once and for all "that the President has nothing to hide in this matter," he announced that he was making public 1,254 pages of transcribed tape recordings of his personal conversations...
Rather declined to say whether he thought Nixon should be impeached, but did say that if he were "betting the rent money," he would wager that the president stays...
...turnstiles spin merrily year-round at one or more of the state's 17 tracks (there are only 23 others in the rest of the U.S.). Despite the dearth of glamour and the shortage of champions that stand out from the pack, huge numbers of gamblers want to wager on the greyhounds that futilely chase an ersatz rabbit around an oval of either five-sixteenths or three-eighths of a mile...
...book, by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, is about a Save-A-Soul Missionary's (Sarah Brown) attempt to convert Broadway's crap-gamesters, Sky, Nathan, and their cohorts, from a life of sin. Sky, always looking for a wager, boasts that he can "get any doll," whereupon Nathan does a slow take in the direction of Sister Sarah, as she sings a processional hymn, "Follow the Fold." "Oh, no...not that'doll'!" exclaims Sky. Of course, Sky and Sarah eventually fall for each other. Mean-while, Sarah's job is jeopardized by her failure to bring in enough lost...
...weirdest wager is that he can make any cat pick up a soft-drink bottle from the floor and deposit it on a counter. The gimmick: grab the cat by the tail and pull it around the floor. In desperation, the cat will grab with its claws for anything, including a bottle...