Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until the Pueblo go, Bynum had piled up $12,409 in steer-wrestling competition in 1963. With almost three months left before the National Finals Rodeo in Los Angeles, Bynum is in a tight race with Rival C. R. Boucher; yet no one who knows Big Jim would bet against a fourth championship...
...Houston, the retired president of a large corporation made a bet that he could collect compensation, told the unemployment office he had been retired only because of the company's age limit. Since the unemployment office failed to find him any work in his field, bossing corporations, he collected $18 a week for 18 weeks...
...government post at all, but in fact runs the city of Hue and surrounding central Viet Nam. Although, unlike his brothers, Can has never been abroad, did not go to a university, and runs his fiefdom like an old warlord, the war in the central highlands is going far bet ter than anywhere else in South Viet Nam. An inveterate ao-dai chaser, Can has incurred Mme. Nhu's wrath: "He is stubborn and touchy, and unbearably obsolete concerning women." But, she concedes, "we all feel safer to have him in Hu?...
...down Broadway wearing 2,548 of his favorite gems, all at once. Lillian Russell ("that woman,"" Saratogians called her) pedaled around town on a gold-plated bike. E. Berry Wall, "the King of the Dudes," once changed clothes 40 times in one day to win a wager. And John ("Bet-a-Million") Gates was the talk of the town when he won $150,000 in one night at the faro tables; counting his afternoon's fortunes at the race track, it left him minus...
Since the U.S. has negotiated similar barter deals involving $1.6 billion worth of agricultural commodities over the past 13 years, it was a pretty safe bet that U.S. agricultural attaches in many a foreign capital were hurriedly digging into the records to see who else has not been nuts...