Word: wager
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blueprint for Union" [March 22] of Roman Catholics and the Anglican Communion is unlikely to end their separation. The "emotional controversies" referred to in your article are as important as the items that were covered in the commission's discussions. I would be willing to wager that nothing will ever come of the illustrious papers composed by the academicians of both groups...
Another intriguing item: the pickled brains of some former Smithsonian officials. It is said that one of the officials, a pioneering geologist named Major John W. Powell, donated his gray matter in order to settle a wager with a colleague about whose brain was larger. Curators are not sure what happened to the colleague's brain...
Reagan's attorney, Donald Wager, maintained that only legal "technicalities" were at issue. Protested Michael...
...tremendous savings in fossil fuels and breathable air. The bike rider also knows that riding one as the day begins is a brief pure aubade of exertion and contemplation. Why else would cyclists risk it? Then, too, subconsciously, the bicyclist may be engaged in a long-term Darwinian wager: In 100 years, which mechanism will still be at work - the bicycle or the automobile...
...realized that planets were the most likely places for extraterrestrial life to be found in his lifetime. He also anticipated that the U.S. would soon embark on an ambitious program of planetary exploration. At a party just before Sputnik I spurred American space activity, Sagan made a perspicacious wager: he bet a case of chocolate bars that the U.S. would reach the moon by 1970. He won with five months to spare...