Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week it was apparent that he was well on his way to losing his bet. Hitler saw through it and attacked him before he was ready. Now, after 17 weeks, Hitler had hurt Russia so badly that, at best, Joseph Stalin would have to begin all over again. The work of years, the beautiful factories, the idea that every man might own a chessboard and have time to play-almost everything Stalinist was now broken by Hitler. This was the same Hitler who wired Stalin in 1939: "I beg you to accept my sincerest congratulations on your 60th birthday...
...Boston Tigers." Travelling on a guarantee from opponents, Snowball has taken this team all over New England, and even to Canada. They reigned supreme in their league from 1922 to 1927, and once, "when they defeated the hitherto unbeaten team from Sherbrooke, Canada, the Canadian ball players had bet and lost so much money in the upset that they had to burn their ball park and start all over again...
...ratio will change before the job is over, not even George Marshall knows. But in the lower ranks it is certain that the ax will swing most heavily on National Guard and Reserve officers, who were picked with less care, trained less intensively than young regulars. Best bet is that around 30% of the Army's citizen-officers will be sent home, to be replaced from the bottom by R.O.T.C. graduates and new second lieutenants from the Army's officers' schools...
...northeast Wyoming, near Sundance, one day last week, Parachutist George Hopkins leaped out of an airplane to win a $50 bet. The problem was to collect. For George Hopkins landed, as the bet prescribed, on Devil's Tower. A lava blister, formed by an eruption 20,000,000 years ago, Devil's Tower is a gigantic rock stump rising 1,200 feet into the sky. Teddy Roosevelt made it the country's first national monument. Its weathered sides are fluted, nearly vertical, practically unscalable...
...sides, driving iron spikes ("pitons") into its hard, sheer sides to make a ladder. They reached the summit, roped little George Hopkins into the middle of their column, and carefully edged their way back down again. Safe on the ground, Hopkins drew a grateful breath, departed to collect his bet...