Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Camp for prize fighters near Summit, N.J.; of a heart attack; in Morristown, N.J. Widow of a onetime Turkish Consul General in New York, she had fed and mothered fighters on her farm for nearly 20 years. Among her "boys" were Tunney, Camera, Berlenbach, Schmeling, Battling Siki. She never bet on a fight...
...bet that made Yardlings George R. Hooper and John M. Alcorn dance gleefully into the frigid waters of the North Atlantic at Revere Beach. They won the bet, but admit ruefully that they are not forming any "Polar Bear Club." "Once is enough," the two Weld Hall dwellers, to whom temperatures in the lower registers are nothing new, chorused in shivering unison...
Whatever the reason that U Saw had decided to bet on the Japanese, he had laid his money down too early. Even if Burma should fall, the Premier was now in no position to collect his bet...
...arrival of tremendous box of flowers diverted the star's attention from her discussion of stage techniques. Obviously thrilled, she exclaimed, "Oh, I bet I know who that's from! That's from Al, my boss at the Old Howard. Well, if I ever get lonesome, I can always walk down the street...
Last week as the wheel ticked around to the tell-off it looked as if the bet had been placed not only riskily, but well. It looked as if Japan might win far more than she had staked and might win it the only way she could, quickly. Already she had achieved naval supremacy in the western Pacific, air supremacy in the Philippines and Malaya. She had taken Guam, Wake, Mindanao, Hong Kong, Sarawak, most of Luzon, nearly half of Malaya...