Word: wager
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...everyone was ready to concede the gold medal in Barcelona to the assemblage now and forever more to be known simply as the Dream Team. Nevada bookmakers, who never miss an opportunity to make a dollar, have fastidiously refused to post odds or take a bet. The only surer wager than the Dream Team may be that George Foreman will not try to make it next as a featherweight...
...Bryant could still have advanced if she hadbeen more cautious her her wager, she said...
...music makes the evenings a worthwhile proposition. In spite of dreadful limitations, Teresa Marrin, the music director, has managed to come up with a compelling reading of Mozart's score. Her tempi are brisk throughout (occasionally creating problems for some of the singers), and betray a wager on the comic rather than the mystical. The playing is controlled, and some roughness in the brass is more than forgivable given the splendid delivery of the all-important flute part...
...lives. In less than a minute, it leveled a quarter of Erzincan's center and reverberated across two neighboring provinces. By morning, rescue officials had dispatched tents, blankets and heavy equipment to aid the frightened survivors. Many had spent the night outdoors in subzero cold rather than wager against the earth's caprice...
...between two slightly lower-profile characters, the sheriff of Sacramento California drove the city's police chief to work, shined his shoes and answered his phone calls last week to pay off a football wager...