Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baruch had amassed $100,000 for every year of his life, and his father jolted his vanity by asking what "good" he intended doing with his millions. For the time being, Baruch was content merely to enjoy the colorful company his money helped him keep, including John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates and Diamond Jim Brady. Seeking an oasis of sanity more like the pastoral simplicity of his childhood, Baruch bought Hobcaw Barony, a historic, 17,000-acre parcel of land in his native South Carolina just north of Charleston. Hobcaw was nature's Xanadu, a game hunter...
Reasons for the attack were easy to find-such as they were. Days earlier, the Egyptian Kings had played stickball (a street version of baseball) with the Jesters. The Kings had lost, refused to pay off a 50?-a-man bet on the game. Aroused by the Jesters' protests, the Kings decided to whip a few Jesters. Mike Farmer and Roger McShane were the first boys that the Knights met on their caper-although, as far as the police could learn, neither victim was a member of any gang...
...charges of having illegal recording devices attached to telephones in his Detroit headquarters. After Hoffa's acquittal last week, a gloomy committee staffer ventured that a forthcoming investigation of teamster links with New York labor racketeers might lead to new charges against Jimmy. "But don't bet on it," the staffer warned. "Don't ever bet on anything again...
Legal Tender. In Lima, Ohio, Duane Fett and a pal were fined $5 each for creating a disturbance when a gas-station attendant refused to sell them i/ worth of gasoline, explained they were settling a bet on whether a man could buy that much...
Overstuffed Atom. Fields and his colleague Arnold Friedman decided that the best bet would be to bombard curium with carbon ions in a cyclotron. This would be quite a trick; curium, element No. 96, is itself synthetic and intensely radioactive. If any of it were fattened into element 102, the fragile, overstuffed atoms would predictably disintegrate in a few minutes...