Word: wagers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seen people race for money and [wager their cars]. I've seen wrecks. Someone died right there a couple of months ago," says Mackey, 19, pointing to a tree. "Some people do stupid things...
...participate in "extreme" sports. Nor did I watch "Dead Poet's Society" and decide, carpe diem, that I would drop out of school to pursue an unlikely acting career. No, when I describe myself as a gambler, I mean it in the most base sense of the term. I wager money on the outcomes of random phenomena...
...gambling lies in its sheer irrationality. While some successful gamers rely on complex schemes to improve their odds, real gamblers never try to count cards or read a strategy guide. I couldn't tell you the chances of drawing a straight flush, and that's why I like to wager that I'll pull one. Every card dealt promises unbounded opportunity. Every hand is like a fresh start on life. Of course the rush I feel in the casino might just be from the second-hand smoke, but I'd like to believe it lies in this dance with fate...
Super Bowls of late have been pretty dull affairs, but you do have the legal option of enlivening matters with a wager or two. Las Vegas casinos offer a dizzying number of propositions for betting on the Game. Here is just a small sample--yes, a small sample--of the "props" for which you can plunk down your money. The variety may offer new meaning to the saying "There's a sucker born every minute...
...wager is with Lucinda Leplastrier (the luminous and spunky Cate Blanchett), also a gambling addict. For her, gambling is a way of asserting herself against gentility and separating herself from some of the money she has inherited but doesn't really want. Equally unlikely for a woman of her time, she is an industrialist. That church is a product of her glass factory, and it is intended as reparation to another clergyman who has been exiled for being seen in her raffish company...