Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, viewers saw a nearly identical telecast as Borman and Lovell-despite bouts of trouble with thrusters and fuel cells-splashed down only 7.6 miles from their planned impact point, winning a bet made with Schirra and Stafford that they would land closest to the target. There was one notable difference. After a 330-hour, 5.7 million-mile journey, the Gemini 7 astronauts were understandably anxious to leave their cramped quarters as soon as possible. Shortly after they opened their hatches, they were hoisted aboard a helicopter and flown to the deck of the Wasp. Though...
...that police broke up a schoolboy protest march and flogged all 239 boys. This is not the truth, and I challenge you to a $5,000 bet that you cannot substantiate your statement, my payment to go to African nationalists in Rhodesia and yours to Rhodesian Government information funds...
...which the creation of these fellowships was originally announced. This is particularly apparent in contrast to the vellum-like bound used for Henry Fellowship applications. Your fingers may be too calloused from typing to ascertain whether the words are really embossed, but it's at least an even bet...
...white, and you're a civil rights worker, it's a good bet that meeting Charles Sims would be unpleasant. His grizzled face and scruffy clothes look engaging only from a distance; once you come close to the man, he stares you down, and you want to disappear. There is something hostile, even belligerant in his eyes. Without opening his mouth, he seems to be saying, "I don't like...
...Johnny Blood or Bronko Nagurski or Red Grange or Steve Van Buren was the best runner who ever lived. Thorpe was flamboyant and unpredictable; he could be very good when the notion struck him-or very, very bad; he was always at his best when he had a bet riding on the game. Nagurski was a runaway truck who was lucky to be bigger (at 230 lbs.) than most of the people he had to run over in the 1930s. Grange was a 165-lb. scatback, who never ran over anybody at all. Like Brown, he was accused of being...