Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pick up the transmissions. The astronauts held up crudely lettered signs that read "Hello from the lovely Apollo Room, high atop everything" and "Deke Slayton, are you a turtle?" In accordance with a bar room tradition that has been adopted by the astronauts, Slayton was required to answer "You bet your sweet ass I am" -or pay the penalty of buying a drink for everyone within earshot. "I have recorded my answer," responded Slayton from the control center, after momentarily switching off his microphone. On one show, Astronauts Schirra and Cunningham suddenly floated up from behind their seats and swam...
Bundy said it was his "personal bet" that the Paris peace negotiations would not proceed far during 1969--even with the bombing stopped--but commented that it was nevertheless necessary to "lift this burden from our lives" by deciding to "steadily, systematically, and substantially reduce the number of American casualties, the number of Americans in Vietnam, and the cost...
...Personal Bet...
Richard Nixon? Making jokes on a TV comedy show with a bunch of weirdos? You bet, as they say, your sweet bippy. Everybody and his myna bird wants to make a cameo appearance on Rowan and Martin's manic Monday night affair. It is the smartest, freshest show on television. President Johnson, Igor Stravinsky and Jean-Paul Sartre have not yet appeared at the stage door, but if they do, they'll just have to get in line behind Marcel Marceau, Bing Crosby, Pat Boone, Dick Gregory and Jack Benny. And they will do anything once they...
...home ground for the Stones and, among white groups, they are all but unbeatable on it. But the album still will not please listeners who lack a taste for musical graffiti. How could it, with songs like the slow, bluesy Stray Cat, addressed to a 15-year-old girl ("Bet your mama don't know you can bite like that")? Or the driving, syncopated Street Fighting Man ("Comes summer here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy")? Coincidentally, Fighting Man was released as a single during last month's Democratic Convention and was promptly...