Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that a U.S. geologist, studying the trackless Montana for a possible railroad, spotted from the air what has since been described as the nearest thing to a perfect geological oil dome. A 2,800-mile supply line up the Amazon, oil diplomacy, and proliferating jungle postponed the payoff till 1939. Then Ganso Azul drilled a well that was a honey: 750 barrels a day. Thenceforth, the problem was not producing but selling...
Just as another fact was becoming apparent-that, as they often did, the Jews were doing their cause considerable damage by their loud and violent outcries-the payoff was delivered by Lionel Sebastian Berk Shapiro, correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Cabled Shapiro, a Jew, who had been present at the conference...
With the American League pennant odds even-Stephen at "6-to-5 and take your pick," the first-place Detroit Tigers limped into Washington last week for the payoff. Lefty Hal Newhouser (won 22, lost 9) had the miseries in his back; Slugger Hank Greenberg was out with a sprained ankle; Sparkplug Eddie Mayo had a wrenched shoulder...
...ephemeral third-termite and That Man, and the alphabet soup of government bureaus (NRA, TVA). But the bulk of heavy coinage has come from a slew of irresponsible, word-happy inventors, including such Menckenian heroes as Variety's late Jack Conway (who coined baloney, S.A., high-hat, pushover, payoff, bellylaugh, palooka and scram) and the inventor of slanguage itself, Walter Winchell...
Married. Lieut. Colonel Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 44, crusading founder and editor-on-leave of Manhattan's irrepressible tabloid PM, wartime best-selling author (The Battle Is the Payoff), kin of oldtime New York's "400" arbiter, Ward McAllister; and Elaine Brown Keiffer Cobb, 29, LIFE editorial staffer; both for the second time; at Lake Tahoe, Nev., the same day she received her Reno divorce from Army Lieut. Mortimer Howell Cobb. The bridegroom wanted to have every step of the divorce and marriage filmed by his personal photographer, but a bailiff kicked the cameraman out of court...