Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prostitution, abortion and contraception were products of the Victorian era and reflect the political power of various church groups. One cannot even deduce from the existence of abortion laws that a majority of the voters, even a majority of enlightened voters, oppose abortion; and the wise money would probably bet that the things that we shall be forbidding in fifty years will differ substantially from the things we forbid...
Third, a large number of consumers who are probably not ordinary criminals--the conventioneers who visit houses of prostitution, the housewives who bet on horses, the women who seek abortions--are taught contempt, even enmity, for the law, by being obliged to purchase particular commodities and services from criminals in an illegal transaction...
...Judging from some of the nominations I've read in TIME [Dec. 16], I think that Peanuts' Snoopy is a sure bet for Man of the Year...
...NATIONAL CURRENT EVENTS TEST (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Now where can a man win $947,400 on a 52? bet? Don't know? Too bad. That's really worth remembering...
...copy of Ulysses, Shaw replied: "I am an elderly Irish gentleman and if you imagine that any Irishman, much less an elderly one, would pay 150 francs for a book, you little know my countrymen." Joyce won a box of cigars on that exchange: knowing his countrymen, he had bet that Shaw would decline. Yet Shaw in another letter refutes the canard that he was disgusted by Ulysses. Writing to London's Picture Post, Shaw explained: "I did not burn it; and I was not disgusted. If Mr. Joyce should ever desire a testimonial as the author...