Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your readers could vote on it, I bet it would be Ike by a landslide...
...compete for Barnaby in many years. Undefeated last year, he would be first man on almost any other college team. Place rarely has a "bad" day and according to Barnaby "never has lost a match that he possibly could have won." He should be regarded as an excellent bet to repeat his undefeated season of last year...
...stop the wage-price spiral wrinkled many a Washington brow last week. One possibility which the Administration shudders to think about: a national policy limiting wage increases to those justifiable by rising living costs and improvements in actual output. Best bet: an all-out effort to warn big labor and management of the dangers of unrestricted wage-price increases. Said Dr. Raymond Saulnier, new chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "Federal monetary and fiscal policies cannot solve the [inflation] problem, though they can do much. We will also require the efforts of both business and labor...
Toronto to Tasmania. For a few moments in the first round, men who had bet on Moore could still tell themselves that their money was safe. Archie's shuffling, flat-footed style seemed to be keeping him out of trouble. He even landed a couple of crisp rights. Maybe he was pacing himself. But Patterson kept crowding in. His fast hands, held high and dashing as a hummingbird, punished the old Moore flesh, and all of a sudden the countless battles Archie had fought, from Toronto to Tasmania, seemed to catch up with him. The starch leaked...
...enabled him to become the first man ever to toss the shot beyond 60 ft.-a feat comparable to the four-minute mile. His farthest throw, of 63 ft. 2 in., is more than 6 ft. farther than his 1952 Olympic record. He is an almost sure bet to win his second Olympic Gold Medal-and ten unofficial points for the U.S.-this week...