Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone of a number of Boston pitchers might be on the mound tomorrow, but it's a safe bet that whoever, does the hurling will show the Crimson nine more stuff than they will see in many a moon...
General Patton's infantry were Americans and they were freshmen. It was a safe bet that he and this battle would make them wiser, and that soon perhaps his meticulousness would make them veterans, capable of beating veterans...
Light U.S. forces engaged the convoy, which skittishly turned and fled. It was a safe bet that during the next heavy fog the Japs would be back...
...death Brigadier General Hugh ("Iron Pants") Johnson made a prophecy about his friend Major General George Smith ("Old Blood and Guts") Patton Jr.: "Critics say he is reckless and impetuous. That's what was said at West Point. He says he is going to command an army. My bet is on Georgie Patton." Georgie Patton became a lieutenant general a fortnight ago. Last week he took command of the central sector in Tunisia, where U.S. troops got an ignominious licking a month ago. Patton celebrated his appointment by advancing...
...when he went broke in the '29 crash-and learned to hate "the interests." The Street would like to see him spend his war earnings on real values this time. But the main significance of the bargain boom was that lots of people were willing to bet good money that the U.S. Government could not check inflation...