Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often happens in such relaxed circumstances, the three men began to talk history. The last time a treaty between the people of Israel and of Egypt had been signed, Begin related, was 3,000 years ago. King Solomon had made an agreement with a Pharaoh. "I'll bet no one remembers the mediator," said Jimmy Carter...
...Even in states where ERA has been approved, charting a new path is a long process of legislative codification, judicial clarification and-most of all-continuous pressure from women. Legislatures won't do the job on their own," says Bet ty Gittes, attorney and member of the Massachusetts commission to revise state laws. "The ERA is not a self-executing law, it's a constant fight." ERA states have not, however, experienced the blizzard of law suits that some ERA opponents feared...
...sense of press irresponsibility persists. You can hear it authoritatively from Jerry Rafshoon, the Atlanta advertising man and old friend whom Carter brought in to refurbish the President's image. "We expected the press to give more attention to issues, to be bet ter informed," he complains. Back in 1976 Carter had said to Playboy: "The traveling press have zero interest in any issue unless it's a matter of making a mistake. What they're looking for is a 47-second argument between me and another candidate or something like that...
...last two years David Rowinsky, the owner of Rowinsky's cake shop on Mt. Auburn St., has bet $25 that no one can have one of his five-pound cheesecakes and eat it in one hour...
...heard infielders complain of a sore arm after heavin' one into the stand, and I've saw outfielders tooken sick with a dizzy spell when they've misjudged a fly ball. But this baby can't even go to bed without apologizin', and I bet he excuses himself to the razor when he gets ready to shave." Runyon's patented style, stilted formality mixed with slang, shone to good effect in Baseball Hattie: "There she is, as large as life, and in fact twenty pounds larger." In The Pitcher and the Plutocrat, Wodehouse turned...