Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...securely barred. He announced that, living on food passed through the bars, he had been inside for several weeks, was going to stay there (with a bed, a chemical toilet and a collapsible bathtub) for 14 months, thus win the long end of a $1,000 to $25,000 bet...
...first lap of the postwar international air race, Britain had bet on the long-beaked Avro Tudor. Britain hoped the Tudor would help the nation get by without using U.S. planes until its jet transports were ready. The Ministry of Supply, which buys all aircraft for the government's three big international lines, ordered 16 Tudor Is for British Overseas Airways Corp. When the Tudor Is were tested, their performance was so poor that BOAC refused to accept them. Eventually British South American Airways took four Tudor IVs for its South Atlantic run and Avro kept on building them...
...Whatever the critics may say about Point of No Return (Marquand says, "I take a dim view of all serious critics-I don't know any who've had a kind word to say for me, ever since I was a little boy"), it is a sure bet that the U.S.'s big Marquand audience will...
Twenty-six-year-old Willie Pep, decided the judges, had won his return engagement, become the first featherweight in history to win back his crown undisputedly after losing it. Hartford folks who bet their shirts on him won a small fortune from the big-city slickers. Mumbled battered Willie, who had been worried lest somebody might have thought he gave up too quickly last October: "I had to prove the last one was no phony...
Also Ran. In Jacksonport, Wis., Oscar Scott got around to paying an election bet by pushing Mrs. H. B. Mogenson down Main Street in a wheelbarrow, was promptly given a ticket for operating a public conveyance without a license...