Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other (Red-menace) school is exemplified by a recent editorial in the New York Daily News: "It is a cinch bet that the much discussed postwar policing of Germany will be done by the Russians. . . . Stalin will accomplish what Hitler tried to do-dominate all Europe. The effect of all this on us will be to leave us in as much danger from Europe as we were before this...
Finland, now allied with the Axis against Britain and Russia, bet on an Allied victory this week. An almost unanimous vote by 300 electors gave an emergency two-year term to incumbent President Risto Ryti, who last fortnight appealed to the U.S. to save Finland from the consequences of Axis defeat (TIME...
First full colonel among the 19th's pilots is 29-year-old Richard Carmichael, the group's commander until it was relieved, now a bombardment officer on Lieut. General ("Hap") Arnold's staff. A sure bet to get a colonel's eagles was Felix Hardison, assigned as operations officer of General Olds's Second Air Force Bomber Command. Lieut. Colonel Ted Faulkner, already assigned to a Kansas air base, and Lieut. Colonel James Connally, assigned to a bombardment tactics school in Florida, were also in line for higher rank. Many enlisted men were being commissioned...
Last week stories of Lou Diamond's prowess in the Solomons began drifting back to the U.S. On Tulagi he demolished 14 Jap buildings with his trusty 81-mm. mortar. Then he turned to the colonel and bet him $50 he could put a mortar shot down the chimney of the 15th. Lou Diamond won his bet. He was not so successful when a Jap destroyer came prowling around the island one morning before artillery had been hauled in, and planes were not available. His shell fell in the water behind...
...whole thing had been touched off by Winchell himself. On a recent Sunday evening broadcast he Winchelled: "You bet I'm prejudiced against those in high office who guessed so wrong before Pearl Harbor. They're still guessing wrong. . . . What worries me most are all those damned fools who re-elected them...