Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mailer nonetheless, if only because he represents an alternative to old approaches that have made the city seem ungovernable. Handicapper Mailer, appraising his chances in race-track argot, accurately considers himself "a 20-1 long shot." On his personal morning line, however, the contender adds with bravura: "Best bet...
...test for the reformists will be to show that Communism can indeed be the liberating, uplifting force that Marx envisioned and not the tyranny that the Soviets and Chinese made it. To judge from all past evidence, it would be dangerous and foolhardy for any Western voter to bet his liberty in the expectation that this will ever happen. But if it did, would Communism still be Communism...
...intelligently decoded. When they refuse to cooperate with a mother getting ready for the evening, she should be alert for more than ordinary balkiness and attempt to sympathize with whatever is bothering them. One kindly mother in that situation, Ginott reports, calmed her kids by saying: "I bet you all wish you could come to the theater with Daddy and me" -even though the line might seem capable of provoking some teen-agers into paroxysms of fury...
...English Romantics were inclined to place their bet on dreams. Essayist Charles Lamb wrote of a friend who used to measure aspiring poets by their answers to his question: "Young man, what sort of dreams have you?" Byron's poem The Dream took on aspects of a Romantic manifesto...
...Series scandal that marked baseball's darkest hour; of cancer; in Detroit. In that tainted series, the American League's Chicago White Sox were heavy favorites over the National League's Cincinnati Reds, and Cicotte, with a 29-7 season's record, was a good bet to win at least two games. But gamblers offered Eddie and seven of his teammates several thousand dollars to throw the sport's most vaunted prize. "Black Sox," screamed the fans. "I did it for the wife and kiddies," Eddie pleaded, but baseball's tough new commissioner, Judge...