Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hall the President's decision was the payoff of a political bet made five months ago. After Ike's heart attack, when nearly everybody else in the U.S. wondered whether the President would be able to finish his first term let alone try for a second, Hall foresaw how much havoc Ike's failure to run would play with the Republican Party. "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it," he said, "and when I come to it, I'll jump off." On Sept. 26, two days after the heart attack, Hall announced...
...make restitution. Or the frantic mother goes to any length to persuade the officer to overlook the offense. Or the case is dealt with by voluntary agencies. That couldn't happen in England. There, if a boy is caught, he must come before the court. That is bet ter, both for society and for the boy. Juvenile delinquency is a moral disease. In England the delinquent goes direct to the 'doctor.' Here you go to a quack . . . By the time the boy reaches the doctor, he's got double pneumonia...
...California, then bought a house in Tarrytown, N.Y., played polo, water-skied, flew small planes. After his wife persuaded him to stop flying, he took her up for one last ride, buzzed under the George Washington Bridge in a final amateur airman's salute. To win a $100 bet, he once water-skied down the Hudson
...within the next five years." But he dashed hopes for a common-cold vaccine. Since a cold, unlike other virus diseases, e.g., measles, yellow fever, polio, confers only the briefest immunity against reinfection, there seems little chance that an effective vaccine can be prepared. Dr. Dingle's best bet: a drug, still to be discovered, that will knock out the elusive common-cold virus...
Morning Line. In Boston, William L. Coilty and Ralph K. Stuart each filed suit for $5,000 against the New Haven Railroad, charged that they suffered "mental anguish, constant anxiety and financial loss" when the Narragansett Special arrived too late for them to bet the daily double at the track...