Word: wager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would wager my tarnished medals that if patriotic loyalty and excellence in technical performance were recompensed with cash on the barrelhead, the recruiting offices would be deluged with clean-shaven, dignified men eager to uphold those traditions that make the military a force to be reckoned with...
...Marcos: Lee shuns the metaphysical altogether, while Marcos relies little on astrologers or mediums. It is likely that they will be the exceptions for a long time to come. In a sense, the leaders are pursuing the same reasoning as the 17th century French Philosopher Pascal did in his "wager" on God. It can hardly hurt to call in an otherworldly adviser-and it just might help...
...Pascal's Wager proposes that the promise of infinite gain makes belief in God's existence worthwhile no matter how small the possibility might seem, and that life should be devoted to renouncing the endless contradictions and passions of self which interfere with maintaining a consciousness of God. Jean-Louis rejects this doctrine, first on the grounds that it's bad probability ("a lottery"), and secondly that accepting certain worldly pleasures (within reason) doesn't lessen his religious faith. He lives by a sort of operational dialectic, using the science of probability to calculate his freedom within the limits...
Having full confidence in my House team, I was ready to wager some money. After all, the Bunnies would have Joe Roda at quarterback, a backfield perhaps second only to the JV's and a bunch of my friends and former roommates, who if drunk enough, would play anyone, including the Minnesota Vikings. I had no doubt in my mind that they would give anybody a good game. Bill refused to bet, but as he was walking away, he yelled a warning. "Just be at the game a couple of weeks from now, and we will see who the best...
From the beginning, the helpful Kee has rather obviously been the key to Greg's survival. Does Flynn intend to reassert sadly that man seems destined to slay his saviors? Or is he bypassing salvation theology altogether and desperately endorsing an existential wager? "Do you ever think," Greg scrawls at the last, "that this life is madness, that this world is a prison, and that if you gave up hope you would be free...