Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrangements for using these bases and listening posts have gone, the State Department would not say last week. But with the Navy already piling up equipment and getting ready to move it, it was a safe bet that the U.S.'s good neighbors were getting ready to sign on the dotted line, if they had not already done...
With a production boom reminiscent of World War I's Hog Island days (TIME, March 31), shipbuilding has looked like a ure bet for strikes. Even without strikes the industry has had enough trouble...
Sometimes their subject was the universe. Wrote Holmes: "My formula as a bettabilitarian (one who thinks you can bet about it but not know) is a spontaneity taking an irrational pleasure in a moment of rational sequence. . . . Functioning is all there is. ... I wonder if cosmically an idea is any more important than the bowels...
...soldier keeps himself and his bunk neat and clean he has nothing to fear from the inspecting officer. If, as the young lady writes, the men all but become neurotic wrecks as the result of an anticipated inspection, then you can bet your last P. X. coupon that they must have had a hectic "night before...
...weeks ago, in Baltimore, gentle Giant Simon had been licked by a third-rater named Jim Thompson. "Simple Simon," sneered the experts, and bet 4-to-1 that Louis would polish him off before the end of the fifth round...