Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather-wizened old rancher from west Texas stuffed $60,000 in his jeans and headed for the town of Del Rio on the Rio Grande River. He was going to bet the whole caboodle on the queen of quarter horses, a chestnut mare named Shue...
This week the vote so far stood 470-to-89 in Matchan's favor. Don Matchan was pretty sure he'd win, but just in case, he had hedged his bet. In the trade paper Editor & Publisher last week he ran a for-sale ad: "Publisher retiring because of disagreement with business community...
Having served under him in the U.S. Navy I am willing to bet that the other 500 men of the former crew of the U.S.S. Pitt will vouch that they have never known of any one person who used adjectives more dramatically or profusely than Lieut. Commander Goodrich, no matter whether he was instructing, explaining, praising or more especially reprimanding with super-adjectival expletives...
...cautious hacendados (landed gentry), who seldom took a chance with a peso- except over a gaming table. It handed power and wealth to half-educated generals and to adventurous businessmen not greatly different from the men who built the U.S. Whatever their sins, the new bosses were willing to bet the wad on Mexico- at least, the part they did not keep for themselves. They took such sleepy colonial cities as Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City, and turned them into bustling places with smoking factories and modern buildings...
Leave of Absinthe. In Lille, France, Joseph Brunard, 27, who had bet 1,000 francs that he could drink a quart of absinthe and live, lost...