Word: wager
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Luftwaffe lieutenant who called himself "Baron" von Werra and claimed he had bagged at least 13 British planes before he was shot down over southern England in 1940. When the British disdainfully disproved about half of Von Werra's claims, he only laughed and proposed a wager: "A magnum of champagne against ten cigarettes that I escape in six months...
...that resembled this garden. G.I.s living in my barracks walked through it to reach the service club. On the rainy, magic-like mornings of spring and summer, the spot was like another world. Most of us will never see Japan again, and many thousands of veterans, I'll wager, felt a lump in the throat while looking at your Art section...
...wants him to look good, and that his fast start is worthless unless it is the first stage of successful long-term performance. But there are qualities in McElroy that make him a good bet-and Neil McElroy, himself a gambling man, would be the first to put his wager on his chances...
...Black. Some sleepy viewers garbled it a bit, asked for The Black and Blue or "that book by Stan Hall," but one publisher alone supplied 2,600 copies to dealers in four days without slaking the demand. Said a book buyer: "I'd wager that more copies of Stendhal have been sold in New York this week than in Stendhal's lifetime...
...involved in their entertainment, and since producer Mike Todd obviously set out to please everybody, the picture even has a plot. Adapted by humorist S. J. Perelman from a novel by Jules Verne, the story relates the adventures of a very correct 19th century English gentleman who, on a wager, sets out to circle the globe in eighty days. So he packs up a couple of shirts and his valet and proceeds by train, sailing ship, balloon, elephant, windpropelled railroad car, and various other exotic means of transportation. Somewhere in India a love interest enters in the shape...