Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steady Yugoslavs, winners of the last European zone playoffs in 1939, became a good bet to repeat next week in the finals against steady Sweden. Other over-the-border tennis...
...past his fighting prime but he had his strategy figured out: "If I boff him, Billy loses his head. When he loses his head, I got him." The fight odds were 13-to-5 in Louis' favor and never wavered when a millionaire Texas oilman bet $300,000 on Challenger Conn. The gamblers had seen Billy, the dancing master, outbox Joe for twelve rounds back in 1941, then fall from one murderous punch...
...final answer to the equine's intelligence. It is my guess that if a deer and a horse were side by side during an approaching forest fire, they would both move in the direction of safety. Moreover, many a horse-wise Westerner would probably lay a bet with omniscient Mr. Buck that the horse would be the one that would escape...
Remember Bratislava. Slovakia's deviation from the national pattern was the first concern of the Communists and their veteran boss, Vice Premier Klement Gottwald (who was a good bet to be Czechoslovakia's next Premier). Pipe-puffing Comrade Gottwald started out by fighting Russia as an Austro-Hungarian sergeant major in World War I, has been fighting for Communism ever since. Like Yugoslavia's Tito he is a former metalworker, and like France's Thorez he sat out the war in Moscow. Like both, he knows how to deal with overly independent elements...
...John Strachey is already touted as a future Prime Minister. Last week a Tory opponent predicted: "He will stand or fall by how he tackles this. But it is my bet that he will stand...