Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hutchison began his ordeal by hops Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock. At 5:15 o'clock, finishing his fifth quart, he told admirers he was feeling marvelous. At 5:20 o'clock, finding himself unable to fulfill the conditions of the bet, he tactfully withdrew...
...gambling so well protected. When the Boss needed money, his boys put a deeper bite on the brothel-keepers, bookies and crapshooters. Tom Pendergast, who made his town a trap for suckers, turned out to be one of the biggest suckers himself; as his horseplaying fever increased, he bet more than a million dollars in one year, lost as much...
...Britain, crowds of 60,000 to 70,000 watched the last games of the waning football season; millions more sat home and placed bets in the football pools. One lucky Londoner won ?55,000, which, as the Daily Graphic pointed out, was almost exactly what the late Lord Passfield (Sidney Webb) left in his will. There was a public outcry because the Quantock Hunt (staghounds) had been allowed petrol rations of 7½ gallons for each deer bagged. But British huntsmen were scheduling more than 100 chases between Easter and the end of April. In Bavaria, the horse-racing season...
...conference was an increase of $500 million in Export-Import Bank lending authority, and an easing of the bank's rules so that more dollars could flow southward. There might be World Bank help, too. The U.S. intended to tell Latinos that their best bet was U.S. private investment, that to get it, Latin American governments would have to assure U.S. investors that they would not be hamstrung...
...game tonight. One of the players is sick and another's baby died and he won't be playing. I'm going to be the only one able to play well and I don't intend to do so good. Don't worry. Bet...