Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seat beside the startled driver, Manhattan Lawyer Robert P. Lord. "Keep quiet," Mike said, "I'm going with you." He gave Lawyer Lord directions for driving to Newark, left him $2 in cab fare, but took $8 in bills, a $333 check and Lord's car. "I bet you think I'm a heel," Mike said. "Now beat it. You'll find your car tomorrow at Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street." When Mike showed up again in L's Tavern with his gun, someone called the police...
Dafoe once sent her six lucky pebbles from the Dionne front yard, and bet on her to restore the fecundity title...
...another, it is no secret that Washington was sorely irked by last year's race-track gambling of a billion dollars that might have gone into war bonds, and by the increase in war-plant absenteeism during Los Angeles' recent Hollywood Park meeting. It was a good bet, as most big-league club owners agreed, that baseball at least would carry...
...dead, 63 missing. Later, in a bull session with the boys, I trot out these said totals expecting complete surprise and amazement. The surprise was effected all right, to the extent that they doubted the figures enough to wager $25 that you are wrong. I took the bet...
...weeks the New York stockmarket has dawdled while buyers tried to make up their minds about the war. Last week, they came to a decision they were willing to bet on: Germany will last for another six months, at least. Result: the market surged upwards in five successive million-share days. And the bellwether Dow-Jones industrial averages, which reclined in the optimistic days of last September, rose to their highest point, 151, since January...