Word: betting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this first Decennial dinner that Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of the honored guests, read a poem patterned after "The One-Horse Shay," and entitled "How the Old Horse Won the Bet.' This poem was not one of Holmes' masterpieces, but the board felt it was certainly worth publishing and sent their best material-monger, Everett Hale, around to see Holmes the next morning...
...Weiland has bet any money on the game, he isn't telling. He did say, however, that the rousing win over Providence has done a good deal to bolster team confidence. The Crimson has lost one of its last 21 Ivy League games. "Brown is our biggest threat," Weiland observed...
...Bet a Billion. In the early days of 1954, there was gloomy talk of a slowing -and possible end-to the postwar boom. Though the economy was still strong, business was falling off and the total of jobless was growing, along with uncertainty about the future. In this critical period, "Red" Curtice stood up before 500 of the nation's top businessmen and industrialists and gave his own pronouncement on the future. General Motors, he said, would spend $1 billion to expand its plants for the increase in auto sales to come. Screamed the headlines: G.M. BETS BILLION...
...made in committee, and the president must sell the top committees (of which he is a member) on his policies before he can execute them. Curtice had to sell the powerful Operations and Financial Policy Committees (which report directly to the board) before he could bet his big billion in January 1954. Says a fellow committeeman: "He prepares his presentation for the committees just as if he expects 100% opposition...
...late to repent." The younger character was Arthur Koestler, now 50, and he found the old man's attitude highly irritating. U.S. readers who, unlike Arthur Koestler, have never been Communists, may share the old gentleman's complacency; but if they do, they will be missing a bet from one of the world's liveliest intellectual tipsters...