Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some 15,000 fans who turned out for the $87,637 Hambletonian did not agree with Bi Shively's figuring. They made Sharp Note their third choice, bet heaviest on Coca-Cola Heir Walter T. Candler's three-year-old Duke of Lullwater, and on Hit Song, owned by the Arden Homestead Stable and Lawrence B. Sheppard...
Until the qualifying rounds began, only Ashenfelter himself would have bet much on his chances. A former Penn State distance man, and an ex-Air Force lieutenant, he had won the National Amateur Athletic Association's 10,000-meter championship in 1950, the 3,000-meter steeplechase title the next year. But he had run the steeplechase only eight times in all before going to Helsinki. And there he was up against the world's toughest competition: Russia's Vladimir Kazantsev, the Soviet Union's best bet for a gold medal in men's track...
...syringe numbers now locked in the safe of the company which packaged the G.G. and the gelatin have been checked against the incidence of polio and paralysis among the two groups of children, doctors will be able to tell the parents of Houston whether G.G. is a good bet...
With all that to talk about, Representative Fred G. Aandahl, a former three-term governor who had never lost a state election, took Bill Langer on in the Republican primary. The winner would be a sure bet in November; North Dakota has sent only one labeled Democrat to Congress...
...Williamson, a diamond-hard bargainer, could not be cracked. So tough old Sir Ernest himself took charge. In Johannesburg last week, Sir Ernest announced the result: Williamson had agreed to start selling through the cartel again. The terms of the new agreement were secret, but it was a good bet that Williamson had come out all right...