Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apron strings of Pasadena propriety were holding him as fast as a straitjacket. All went well enough until Bill was in his teens, when suddenly he was overcome by an urge to experience danger. Soon he was making a good part of his spending money from boys who bet him he couldn't jump a 4½-ft. fence of iron spikes from a standing position, and every once in a while, "just for the hell of it," he would walk along the outer rail of Pasadena's "suicide bridge" on his hands, apparently indifferent...
...Bet Your Life...
...decided not even to support Candidate Frank Lausche for the presidency. At a dinner party last summer, he calculated his chances at 1% ("Remember me," retorted Jane Lausche. "Make it one-half of 1%"). Though the odds have gone up in recent months, Lausche is still disinclined to bet on Lausche. "I will do nothing to reach the goal," he says. "The honor doesn't come from one's desire to attain it. A man should not seek office." A politically wise friend sees the Lausche strategy in another light. The governor, he thinks, has laid a tender...
...Students for Stevenson Club already has 328 members, a figure far ahead of the other groups. Eisenhower for President supporters number slightly over 100, while the Kefauver booster club so far has only 25 supporters. Furthermore, if Eisenhower decides not to run for reelection, it is a safe bet that many new clubs will form to back the candidacies of various Republican aspirants...
Estes Kefauver, onetime TV terror of gamblers, last week blandly weighed the odds, liked them, and plunked down the biggest bet of his 1956 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Unlimbering his molasses monotone, the Tennessee Senator announced that he will tackle Adlai Stevenson in the March 20 Minnesota primary, a race that Minnesota's Democratic Party leaders had handicapped solidly for Adlai...