Word: wagered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...they could probably get much steeper prices from more ambitious troublemakers abroad, especially those looking for really hard-to-find goods. "In this country at this time," says a Soviet historian, "anything can happen. If you can come up with a guarantee of $2 million, hard currency, I wager that I can put you in touch with somebody who would sell you a nuclear missile." But how would the buyer get it out of the country? "Easy," he says. "Launch...