Word: wager
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...democracy leaders had been formally charged, or whether they might be brought to trial at a later date. It is possible that Beijing is still betting on what dissident Fang Lizhi has called the "Chinese amnesia," the tendency of the country's people to forget past repression. That wager has paid off before. China's leaders seem to be hoping that the rest of the world will be equally forgetful...
...open backstage area of New York's Jones Beach Theater, and Wynton Marsalis is pumping balls into the net from every angle. Suddenly, he dribbles out 30 ft. from the goal and announces, "I bet $100 I can sink one from here." A stagehand snaps up the wager. Marsalis flexes his knees, rises up on his toes and sends the ball arcing through the misty night sky. Swish! Amid scattered applause and shouts of "Aw right!" from fellow musicians, a voice calls out, "Wynton, you are one competitive dude!" The young man grins. "No, I'm not competitive," he says...
...would wager, at the risk of becoming Crimson cannon-fodder, that average legacy applicant is more qualified for admission to Harvard than the average minority applicant. The Crimson would surely not like to acknowledge that this might be true...
Last week Gorbachev insisted that if the issue is ever put to a vote, Lithuanians will ultimately reject secession in favor of his own federation plan. Although Gorbachev did not back up that prediction with a wager, he has bet his prestige on the outcome...