Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Douglas MacArthur this was the payoff. "The entire island of Luzon ... is now liberated [after] one of the most savage and bitterly fought [battles] in American history." Enemy losses were 113,593; U.S. casualties...
...Payoff. If Harry Truman could act with political acumen and courage, he could also act like an old-line party man. Day after he nominated Lilienthal, he just as coolly paid off a political debt to the late ex-Convict Tom Pendergast, who had sent him to the U.S. Senate...
...payoff was that Casey hadn't finished that issue yet. It took all his tact to get the magazine back before he could take off again...
...Payoff. The German command reacted as if. the capture of Merkers and its mine had been so much salt in the Wehrmacht's deep wounds. Near Mühlhausen, about 30 miles northeast, the Germans opened the most concerted resistance Patton's men had met in many days. The Germans lost 40 tanks in one day, came back for more wounds and lost ten the next...
...were reported streaming westward to meet his thrusts) or by the demands of supplying his tanks. Patton's armor had sunk the deepest wedge into Germany; his spearheads were only 175 miles from the Russians and the Germans were jumpy over any Patton move. One might be the payoff stroke that would cut Germany in two at the waist...