Word: betting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jokes and then "brush up on your humor just before you want to use it. This technique is used by some of the most successful salesmen." Of course, that's what Jim used to do, and how far did it get him? Come to think of it. I'll bet Davis isn't so darned good looking. Fat from all those dinners...
...picking oranges, swinging sledges in railroad section gangs, lumberjacking. prospecting. On a gold-digging trip to the Sierras he took along a copy of Montaigne's essays. "We were snowed in and I read it straight through three times. I quoted it all the time. I'll bet there are still a dozen hoboes in the San Joaquin Valley who can quote Montaigne...
...conservative. A full-blooded international career of oil wildcatting, marital freewheeling and ambassadorial roving has left 52-year-old John Peyton Trimble irrepressibly convinced that "experimentation" is the first rule of behavior, "essential to the courage to be oneself." His politically gifted son rigidly practices a contrary rule: "Never bet against the house-don't be a sucker-be the house." As in his other books (The Nice American, The Center of the Stage), Novelist Sykes cleaves right to the secret core of his characters-ex-Communist literary snobs, envenomed small-town society queens, Point Four evangelists, coronary-conscious...
...mere vainglorious maneuver, intended to extract some other concession from the West. In fact, if Washington and Taipeh are right about the real Communist intentions, you have to conclude that Chou En-lai is a mere boastful muddler. Such is the conflict of evidence. It is an even bet either way for this year. But a Communist grab for Formosa is a virtual certainty next year or the year after that if we do not strengthen our shockingly weakened defenses on this side of the Pacific and if we fail to find some better Asian policy than piecemeal retreat...
...Italy in the 15th century. He failed. He took service under Emperor Maximilian (1459-1519) in the hope of uniting Europe. This was a flop, too. As adviser to Spain's Don Carlos (1500-1558), Fosca decided that the New World was the future's best bet; instead, he found it was nothing but an extension of the Old, smirched with the massacres of Indians. When the Age of Reason dawned. Fosca took fresh courage, but found that Revolutionary France was just a rational washout. In the end, Fosca can't imagine why generation after generation...