Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week began with reports of a new assault by Palestinian guerrillas in the Jordan Valley town of Bet She'an. TIME Photographer David Rubinger and Reporter Daniel Drooz arrived to cover the story just as a mob of outraged townspeople seized and burned the dead terrorists' bodies. The crowd's hostility soon engulfed the journalists. Drooz's camera was lost, and Rubinger narrowly dodged a large stone aimed at his head...
...Bet She'an (House of Rest) is a dusty little village in the Jordan Valley inhabited mostly by Sephardic Jews, who immigrated to Israel from North Africa. According to the Book of Samuel, the community is the place where the victorious Philistines hung the bodies of King Saul and his son Jonathan on the city gates as trophies of war. Last week there were other human trophies of war in Bet She'an, as the townsfolk surrendered to a paroxysm of anger that symbolized the black and explosive mood of embattled, besieged Israel today...
...favorable image with the voting public. But with the unions getting ever more restless and militant and with some grumbling on the back benches, the President will soon have to offer something more than a certain Kennedyesque charm and a revised national anthem if he hopes to win his bet...
...seem to matter what sort of a fact it is. When Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for man," the reader is going to know it was in a boot sized 9½B. The day President Eisenhower suffered his coronary thrombosis, Manchester, you can bet, knew what he had for breakfast: "beef bacon, pork sausages, fried mush, and flapjacks." Statistics tumble on the reader's head like the rich chaos from Fibber McGee's closet. Who else would know that the average height of American women increased ½ in. between 1945 and 1954 (from...
...seems to have derailed a plan to mine Haiphong in the fall of '69, and postponed it for what turned out to be two and a half years. That probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives in North Vietnam and probably--speculation here, but I think a good bet--probably kept us from invading North Vietnam and using nuclear weapons ultimately. That's more speculative. The life aspect in North Vietnam I think is not really speculative...