Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the enthusiasm of kids opening a lemonade stand, the tennis firm of Pauline Betz & Sarah Palfrey Cooke went into business. Sarah's tennis-playing husband, Elwood, had lined up 34 dates from New York to California. It looked like a good bet: the first pro competition between the two women who had ruled U.S. amateur tennis for six years. But Pauline and Sarah decided to give the customers something extra-a comedy act. When they played at schools (Barnard, Smith, Duke, etc.) Sarah, the straight man, appeared on court looking for Pauline, who then charged...
...decided to see what the union thought, discovered that many another carpenter was wondering the same thing. The 940 union carpenters in northwestern Washington's Skagit, Whatcom and San Juan counties took a vote. Last week the returns were in: 60% had decided to refuse the raise and bet their 13? an hour on the future...
...background music continually dictates what mood you must get in for upcoming scenes. And the seeking mind can read Significance into several episodes: someone scored a dialectical coup in presenting a smirking, opulent nobleman who rewards the hero, who has won for him a 500 thousand ruble bet, by giving him a ruble...
Australia may have a shortage of productive workmen, but it has no shortage of bookies (who, in Australia, are highly respectable gentry). Aussies, who hate to miss a chance to get a lot for a little, play the horses heavily. In sports-mad Brisbane, the favorite race-track bet is a long-shot version of the U.S. daily double-a combined long-odds bet on two races. Some bookmakers, known as "doubles fielders" will not accept bets of any other kind...
...changed, in dress and outlook, out of recognition, but by his look Sturdy might have stopped out of 1940. "Look guy," Sturdy beamed, "It's good to find a human in town. Let's get a drink and talk. I know a couple of girls." Vag smiled privately. He bet Sturday knew a couple of girls. Rumors of his high-flying amours had in their freshman year kept three baby deans permanently poised to pounce...