Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other holdups. Amid confident press speculation that they had probably fled to the country until the heat was off, the two, posing as detectives, then called at the fashionable Neuilly apartment of Joseph de Bisschop, a transport company executive, and walked out with 100,000 francs (about $300) in cash and some $1,400 worth of jewelry...
Bromwich, with the fans solidly behind him, worked up to match point three times and then failed to cash in. Having yet to win a Wimbledon championship, he was obviously suffering from "center-court jitters." In the excitement of Falkenburg's stubborn last stand, it was easy to forget how bad both players' tennis was. After Bromwich's serve was broken in the crucial fifth set, he began muffing everything. Falkenburg's winning margin: 7-5, 0-6, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5. Said he: "I was lucky...
...gave away all his ready cash-including 145 pawn tickets-and went to work for $25 a week at the Greater New York Federation of Churches. Five years later he was responsible for what is believed to be the first religious radio program broadcast...
...next try, the ball hopped out like a trained rabbit, five feet from the pin. He canned the putt for a score of 284, enough to win his third British Open and the cheers of 10,000 spectators. The first prize was worth only $600 in cash, but a hundred times that in prestige. As a shot in the arm for British sport lovers, the value of his victory was beyond reckoning...
...biggest cash deal in Hollywood history was closed when Howard Hughes bought control...