Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before the atomic bomb was first tested in New Mexico, a distinguished scientist offered an uncollectible bet: ten-to-one that the bomb would set off a chain reaction in the atmosphere. His colleagues were pretty sure that the planet would not go up in that particular explosion. But many scientists think that some future bomb, or series of bombs, may well have the power to end the world...
...enough gambler's veins. Of that momentous night when Charley had his triumph-and his comeuppance-Wisconsin-born Author Heth has made a fast-moving short novel. His slightly lopsided characters look startlingly real in the smoky, harshly lit room where little Bergson sweats over, a two-bit bet and a stranger's trembling hands stake $8000 on one roll of the dice...
...national lottery's winning tickets, the amount gambled was a hot $500,000. When the nine and two came up, 500 scrupulously honest bicho bankers started paying off on the bear (92) to thousands of businessmen, taxi drivers and maids all over the country who had bet anything from half-a-cent to $250. In Pernambuco, where Russian sympathizers had played the bear, the winnings were heavy...
...willing to bet that the picture [illustrating "September 1945"] is taken near Pawling, N.Y., on the road to Quaker Hill, home of Lowell Thomas and Thomas E. Dewey...
...Navy. He had a letterman line anchored on 250-lb. Tackle George Savitsky and a G.I. backfield starring ex-Air Corpsman Bob Evans, ex-Sergeant Don Schneider and ex-Army Fullback Farquahr Jones. Of Army and Navy, Coach Munger boasted: "We'll beat one of them. Wanna bet...