Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WILL BET YOU TWO TICKETS TO THE PLAY THAT THE THIRD PERSON [WAS] MY FRIEND BOB KEITH...
...bet. It was the doctor. The error was caught and corrected in several hundred thousand copies...
Major General Bennett E. Meyers, wartime No. 2 purchasing officer for the Army Air Forces, had bet his hand like a man trying to make a pair of deuces look like a full house. But when his hand was called in Washington's Federal District Court, he folded; on trial for procuring perjury he declined to testify in his own defense...
Last week 38 Biggleswade unionists went on strike against Wells and Winch, claimed they had cut deliveries to the brewery's 370 pubs by one-third. With three weeks still to go before Easter, Alf's sporting friend offered to pay off the bet and forget the whole business. But Alf, taking his turn on the picket line, turned the offer down cold. "After all," he said, and his fellow strikers agreed, "it's the principle of the thing. A man has a right to grow a beard any time he wants...
Andrew, born in Budapest and a resident of the U.S. for only seven years, was too surprised to make a thank-you speech. He had found three commercial substitutes for inflammable ethyl ether. Being the youngest of the finalists, he had not expected to win. Said he: "I bet some body a dollar I wouldn't, so I'd be sure to get something out of the deal...