Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...share of the thousands of words a week filed by sports writers were about the Rufe Leonards rather than the Stan Musials. At Pensacola, Fla., the Dodgers had 242 rookies attending a baseball school at an abandoned Navy airbase. One good bet: Negro Jackie Robinson will start the season in Brooklyn as a first baseman...
...Nazis tried to sweep the tables in World War II by Rommel's drive into Egypt. The Russians placed a tentative bet only a year ago, lost out with their fiasco in Azerbaijan, Iran. Now Russia has raised the ante by threatening Greece and Turkey. Last week, President Truman dealt in the U.S. - in a diplomatic way -by asking for a $400,000,000 loan to Greece and Turkey, accompanied by mili tary advisers and weapons (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The loud talk was all of Greece and Turkey, but the whispers be hind the talk were of the ocean...
...Faith. The temperature of The Crisis patient was charted in Britain's dwindling dollar holdings and in her trade balance (TIME, Feb. 3). Britons asked themselves if a Government which had bet wrong on a shortage in coal might not also bet wrong on a shortage in dollars. Would Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton suddenly appear in Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell's calamitous role? Or would the Government, now alert to dangers, try to save dollars by restrictions on such comparative luxuries as U.S. cigarets, Hollywood films, Texas grapefruit and dried eggs...
...Communication might now be our best bet against destruction," he asserted. "Since basic English is perhaps our best communication with other peoples--the Russians, for example--conceivably, then, it could guard us against atomic bombs and warfare...
Perfumers, brooding biologically, regret that more modern males do not use musky perfumes. Presumably, men are missing a bet, for nature intended the magic scent as something to drive females wild. If modern men could be convinced of this principle (as they were when Mohamed wrote of panting and of bliss) a great new market would boom the perfume industry. Chemists, to save the little male musk deer, would have to work harder and faster...