Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbia, rated as a likely bet for the cellar, upset heavily favored Brown, 23-20, on a 22-yard kick by Rudy Pegoraro, an alternate fullback for the Lions. Their coach, Aldo Donelli, produced a secret weapon in his quarterback son, Dick, who outmaneuvered Brown's defense to turn in two touchdown passes and a crucial, last-minute pass Interception. Young Donelli may make up for the loss of last year's one-man team, Claude Benham...
Alas for the poor Senate anti-rackets committee when Teamster Vice President James Hoffa "swaggered into the McClellan hearing like a crowing cock into a coop of capons." The illusion is perfect, with the committee certainly discovering its impotence in the fray, but we'll bet our bottom forceps that Hoffa joins the capon ranks in no time. New Capon Hoffa, certainly economically "fattened for the table" (Webster), will join the docile when the committee leaves the roost for the chopping block...
...vengeful lump in West Germany; now they have been absorbed in the general prosperity and are no longer a hindrance to Germany's diplomatic maneuvering. High-placed German Christian Democrats, once the election is past, hope to take the diplomatic and economic offensive in Eastern Europe. Their best bet is to establish friendly ties with Poland, and their best means is to abandon some of the German claims to what is now Polish territory. Should this ever come to pass, the Kremlin would be put on the spot-asked to answer why Russia was still hanging onto former Polish...
...cronies' chatter, occasionally prompting in stage whispers, never hesitating to set his bouncy colleague right on the propaganda rails. For like it or not, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, 61, was doomed to the limelight. He is the only one of the handful of top Soviet Communists to have bet the right way in last June's command showdown between Khrushchev and the old guard...
...this was far behind schedule. But the Ministry stuck to its guns, insisted that British vaccine is safer and more effective than the American.* British critics of the Ministry felt that it had put national pride above the welfare of polio victims in 1957. It was a good bet that with home-grown supplies still lagging, Britain would be importing straight Salk vaccine from the U.S. or Canada in time for next year's polio season...