Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of this far-reaching crisis, Paul Butler is not likely to strike his distress flags soon. The Democratic Party's big contributors may yet come through-but they can hardly be expected to bet heavily on a horse that is running backward, especially when they don't yet know the name of the horse...
Democratic state chairman William H. Burke wound up the campaign for McCormack with an attack on Stevenson's supporters. "You can bet," he stated, "that the great mass of Stevenson's promoters will not be here Thursday but down at Princeton University listening to Alger Hiss...
Senior Fletcher Hodges finished 115th without practicing at all; Richard Arthur grDv covered 20 miles; and sophomore Colin Church raced 12 miles to meet his girl at Wellesley and collect a five dollar bet...
...became a supreme statesman and lawgiver as well as the most formidable military genius in Asiatic history-is played by Hollywood's best-known cowboy, John Wayne. And does he gallop across the steppe, as the young Temujin did, on a hairy little Mongol pony? You bet your yurt he doesn't. The sleek horseflesh in this picture would just about last one night in the average steppe pasture at 10 below...
...with all the necessary equipment for making heroin out of opium. Calmly washing her hands after making a fresh batch was the chatelaine, grey-haired, motherly Mme. Kalyopi Kalo-gridi, a Greek woman whose title "Queen of the Smugglers" had been well earned in two criminal convictions and the bet ter part of a lifetime spent in the illicit drug trade. Kalyopi's Teheran plant was capable of turning out each week up to 110 Ibs. of deadly dope worth nearly $500,000 on the wholesale market. Disguised as gift packages, some 90% of Kalyopi's product...