Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over no man's land circled the observers, calmly calculating how went the battle. Their guesses stood as betting odds, which generally stood about 3-to-1 on Franklin Roosevelt. Actually a citizen who wanted to bet on Dewey got 12-to-5 odds; a Roosevelt bettor...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., who, in the course of denying that he had ever bet $1,000 on beating other Allied generals to Paris, also denied that he had ever seen a $1,000 bill (TIME, Sept. 18), drew the sympathy of some admirers in Fort Worth. They decided he should and would have one to wave at Berliners...
...Southern California, the best bet on the West Coast, had eight lettermen from its 1944 Rose Bowl championship team...
...three times in three days. He had his first full-dress session with the Chiefs of Staff since his return from the Pacific. He summoned Robert D. Murphy, soon to be the top U.S. diplomat in Germany. He had a chat with British Ambassador Lord Halifax (and made a bet with him-amount undisclosed-on the war's end-date undisclosed). He also did some quick shoring-up of his political defenses, calling in the Governor of Texas and ordering Jimmy Byrnes to pull out all stops on reconversion...
Their appreciation began to flourish when the Fourth Air Force launched a project to teach camouflage on the stage. Technical Sergeant Harry Horner, ex-stage designer, dreamed up a musical show (You Bet Your Life) and a troupe of Air Force men and Hollywood girls went on the road with...