Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lose," spieled a full-page ad by Doubleday & Co. in the New York Times Book Review. "We are so convinced of the appeal these important books will have for you that we are willing to bet that five of them will be best sellers by the first week in May." The terms: if more than one of the six failed to make the Times bestseller list by then, Doubleday promised to send a copy of any one of them "absolutely free" to anybody asking...
Baltimore's paunchy three-term Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro was punching hard. "I'm gonna bust their skulls wide open!", cried he of his rivals for Maryland's Democratic senatorial nomination. "You can bet on that." The three other principal candidates were punching too. Candidate Clarence D. Long, an economics professor at Johns Hopkins University, accused D'Alesandro (but later retracted and apologized) of having been "an outspoken admirer of Mussolini." Chimed in Candidate James Bruce, business tycoon and onetime (1947-49) U.S. Ambassador to Argentina: "D'Alesandro's tax policy has been...
...need not have worried. The jurors found Betsy innocent-a decision that meant a 25? loss to Director Paul, who had bet that their verdict would be guilty...
Togliatti "never bet a cent on Khrushchev," continued Seniga. "He thought he was worth very little." Togliatti's newspaper L'Unita called the turn wrong on Zhukov, thinking the marshal was about to be promoted instead of sacked. Each morning for three years, Togliatti reportedly walked into Communist Party headquarters in Rome with the same question: "What news from the peasant?" Whenever the reply was "Nothing new." Togliatti would sigh, "Then today we can work in peace." After Hungary brought a flood of desertions from the Italian Red Party, Togliatti told an intimate: "See where Khrushchev has brought...
...tournament started, many a gambler hedged his bet by selling part of his player. And since this was Las Vegas, side bets were laid on almost every shot. "I've never seen a tournament like this one," said Ken Venturi. "People come up to me and feel my legs and arms, and pat my stomach. They want to know how I feel and how I'll score, so they can place their bets...