Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bet your bottom dollar on it," promised an official in the know...
Cambridge's "old guard" of pool room politicos had better wander over to their offices in City Hall one of these days for a last look around, because the elections on November 4 under proportional representation and Plan E make it a safe bet that many of them won't be back...
...that isn't all. I'd be willing to bet that more men get invitations to home meals, rides to the pool, dances, free ball games here, than in any other U.S.O. in the country-comparatively speaking...
...hands of God and there is no knowing." Soon war was so commonplace that when Mrs. Kennedy took her daughter Ellen for an overnight visit to another resort, their host's children chanted: "We've got a magnetic mine. Have you got a magnetic mine? Bet you haven't got a magnetic mine at your old Porthmerryn." And when they were raided, Daughter Ellen "enjoyed it tremendously." promised "I shan't boast about it to Lucy and Claire. It's so hard on them to have missed...
...these things." Vag had hardly felt the bump given to him by the flustered young man in new tweeds, but he found himself helping him to pick up the jumbled mass of desk blotters, catalogues and sample newspapers dropped by his excited assailant. "Freshman, I presume?" he queried. "You bet, the Class of '45 is here,"--and the nit was suddenly off and down the street...