Word: bet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bet the Senate barber shop is putting in some extra chairs in anticipation of a huge increase in business. Surely, after what some Senators did to Judge Haynsworth, they won't be able to ever look in the mirror again...
...spite of President Nixon's tireless warnings that businessmen who bet on persistent inflation are bound to lose, the bets are still being placed. Wholesale commodity prices continued to rise at an estimated 4.8% annual rate in November. The index will almost certainly move up again this month because higher prices for nickel and lead were posted last week...
...third quarter, according to the National Industrial Conference Board, capital budgets of the nation's 1,000 largest manufacturers went up at an annual rate of 3.7%. That was not as big a rise as the 13% increase in the second quarter, but a rise nonetheless. Before businessmen bet less, the Administration will have to show them more convincing evidence that they are going to lose the game...
...boils down to a mismatch between a squad that will most likely be fighting for the ECAC title and one that will have to struggle to keep above water. The only way that Nortbeastern can win is if Harvard allows it to. It has happened before, but don't bet on its happening tonight...
...BET the dream all began with the vision of innocent sharing of places at the medieval wooden Advocate table and at the seminar table of Lowell's Tuesday Chosen. Began of winter evenings reading aloud, of long intense discussions of tradition and iconoclasm, of who's breaking into print and why, of our own ambitions and crippling incapacities, of our competition and heroes and of what must be done...