Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ladies and poker fiends alike. "Card games," the candidate mused. "The only game I know anything about is that game-let me see-I don't know what the name is, but you put one card face down on the table, and four face up, and you bet." Then Truman, too, headed for California...
...plausible assumption that Forever Amber might be its biggest smash hit since Gone With the Wind, the shrewd house of Macmillan spent a small fortune ($20,000) on advance publicity, and were set to saturate the nation's bookshops with 225,000 advance copies. It was a good bet that before the month was out Amber would be boiling its way into the war-bored minds and emotions of millions. And with so much bare flesh involved, dazzled readers were not likely to complain of the fact that Author Winsor never gets around to much deep thought...
...only after 80 pages of more of the same that Author Winsor herself finally tosses in the towel. Many readers will never finish so poor a book; but many more will doubtless help Macmillan's win its bet...
...have just finished reading "Ready for V-Day" (TIME, Sept. 4). You bet we are ready for it, but it would seem that our definition of V-day is not in accord with that of the patriots (?) at home...
...bonds. (One Philadelphia matron called her bank to explain that she could not get down that day and to ask if she could still get her money next day.) Some felt they need not hang on to their bonds any longer. One woman cashed in $1,000 worth "to bet on a race horse"; another got $75 to do her Christmas shopping "before the rest of the women pick over everything." A middle-aged couple cashed in $225 worth of bonds "to have a good time...