Word: wager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ascertaining exactly how much of this enormous increase was due to gifts or due to sound investment practices is hard to say; but it is safe to wager that the great part of the increase was due to capital gifts rather than capital gains...
...hiring retired U.S. Navymen to accompany Playboy bunnies and teach backgammon to "the masses" [Feb. 19]. The Navy's variation of backgammon, acey-deucey, is played extensively on board ships at sea by crusty senior petty officers and chief petty officers. They've even been known to wager "small sums" on the game's outcome...
...expected his Harvard counterpart to show up. For all he knew, the Harvard guy was still out there with the Navy, steaming around on a rusting bird farm and arguing Ivy football with Shack the Rack, who had gone to Princeton Surely, he had forgotten about me even-up wager they had made a year earlier after a few beers at the Mavport Officers Club. A standing bet, $100 annually on the Harvard Yale game supplemented yearly according to the cost of living increase. And even if he hadn't, surely the Harvard guy wouldn't be able...
American farmers and traders to sell their goods overseas at a gain. Like any poker player, the men who wager in the grain-trading business are able to rest a bit more easily if they know they have an ace in the hole...
...name is Linda," said one caller, "and I love you." Most of the t.j.s, in fact, are too busy to do much but read and gear up for the next day's show. "No matter how far out a subject might be," says Judge Rowe, "I'll wager someone will call up and discuss it." Beyond hard work and a gift of gab, however, the t.j.s have little in common. Though they usually try to create the impression that they are young and sexy, several, like Ballance, are 50 or more. Few have completed college, and most started...