Word: bet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McGraw-Hill President Curtis Benjamin: "We were attracted the great and very evident resurgence of interest in the fine arts in America, and by the fact that more than 5,000,000 students are now studying art in one form or another in the U.S.A." It is a fair bet the figure will keep right on rising...
...carnival booth and waited to be won by the holder of the lucky number. One day the goldfish saw a small boy looking into the tank. The boy wanted with all his heart to win the goldfish and take it home, but he had no money to bet with. The goldfish and the boy looked at each other for some time, wishing and wondering. Then a big man with a black beard came. He looked like a professor and was obviously the wrong type for a goldfish. When he saw the one in the tank, his eyebrows waggled excitedly...
...Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck, who has been busy on the West Coast and elsewhere promoting Charlie Halleck as the G.O.P.'s most promising vice-presidential bet, suddenly called off the campaign. Reason: the folks at home have that neglected feeling, are wondering whether Charlie has been taking them for granted. Result: from now on, 13-termer Halleck will concentrate on wooing the Hoosiers in Indiana's Second Congressional District (which gave him a none too solid plurality of 6,000 in the 1958 elections), will bide his time until next July's Republican Convention, when...
...preceding three years (abandoning the old parity ratio based on 1910-14 figures), the Benson program will admittedly lead to a gradual downstep of prices each year. Benson believes that dropping prices will ultimately cut down the amount of wheat raised; U.S. farmers, past masters of food production, bet that they can keep their incomes from falling too fast by increasing their crop yields. Congress rejected Benson's wheat proposal last session, but this time Benson counts on a powerful new weapon: Ike's promise to go on TV next year and urge public backing for Benson...
When Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell promised last April to eat his hat on the steps of the Labor Department if unemployment did not drop below 3,000,000 in October, he thought he was making a sure bet. But last week the Labor Department announced that although employment was higher than in any previous October-66,831 000-unemployment stood at 3,272,000. Just before the figures wene officially announced, Mitchell appeared on the Department of Labor steps to keep his part of the bargain-or almost. Said Mitchell: "I am off by several hundred thousand entirely...