Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madar me to bet on the Crimson and I'll take it 'cause Ceithaml kind of fan who will Lund his support even when a Chappius down. I Wistert heaven more people realized how Sharpe Harvard is. They won't go White through and win in a Brieske. Kolesar the home fires, we'll Boor through for a tie." Harvard 13 Michigan...
...bets! You should hear them bet who is going to be the best machine-gun outfit, which rifle company will pick off the most snipers, etc. ... I don't think in history a bunch of men have gone into any engagement as cold and calm and confident as this group. There's only one answer. It will be successful...
...things considered, it is a safe bet that what Nelson and Rosenwald were really planning to take-at least in the near future-was: 1) the machinery still being used for nonwar production (or for no production at all) that could and should be put to war production; 2) the vast, uncounted hoard of obsolescing and obsolete machinery that should have been written off and junked long ago. Taking the former would merely hasten the demise of a peace plant which is probably doomed for the duration by materials or labor shortages. (Such a plant would become a case...
...found who is able to get anything done by dealing with one Government agency. Frequent frantic trips are usually necessary to get the O.K. of a dozen or more agencies and commissions for the simplest of transactions. Only bureaucratic control of travel rationing will stop it. Best bet: it won't be bureaucratic control...
...During rehearsals she uttered girlish spontaneities like "I'm so warm I'd like to rip this dress right down to the navel." But on the air she was a luminously sensitive Juliet. Ogling his daughter fondly in his dressing room afterwards, Old John cried: "You can bet the whole damn family was listening in and proud of the job she did. It was a damn good job, too; and if you don't believe that...