Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those pickets around his Washington apartment? Humph! "When those poor scums read my new book-entitled Separation or Mongrelization, Take Your Choice-I'll bet they'll throw up a picket line a mile long...
Wildest horse-betting spree in U.S. history: $1,306,514,314 bet by 17 million addicts to top by 16% 1944's alltime high...
...scientists are a group of madmen who are itching to exterminate life on earth in order to prove their theories. The possibility of an uncontrollable, disastrous chain reaction has been carefully considered, and there is no known or foreseeable way of starting one. Furthermore, your statement that Dr. Fermi bet that the New Mexico test would end in worldwide disaster is completely false...
...TIME, which wondered why there were no takers for such a bet (what could they lose?), is glad to be reassured that U.S. scientists are not really mad-just very, very inquisitive...
Labor's best political bet still seemed to be pressure on politicos who need its help-if necessary, by flirting with their rivals; if necessary, by threatening divorce...