Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third morning was payoff time: the convoy was off Mindoro. As the sky lightened behind Mindoro's peaks, destroyers and rocket ships raced inshore, laying down a barrage on the flat, inviting coast. No settlement was to be shelled unless Japs were detected, and none were...
...patient, meticulous man; wartime West Point and its hard-studying, hard-drilling Cadets are right out of a football coach's dream. For six weeks Army Coach Blaik had carefully nursed his blessings, polishing his flashing T attack, proving his line, patiently pre paring for a payoff. Last week, suped-up to their mental and physical peak, the Cadets exploded against Notre Dame...
...teams along as scouting spectators; they were scarcely needed at West Point, where Army mercifully cut the last half of its game from 30 minutes to 16. The unbeaten Cadets meet Notre Dame in New York this week-and Navy three weeks hence, in what will certainly be the payoff game of the 1944 season...
Optimists who had forgotten that recent Allied advances were the payoff of a battle fought two months ago in Normandy were shocked last week to find the Germans putting up another fight. But the scare which the Wehrmacht threw into the Allies at Arnhem obscured the fact that last week was a bad week for the Wehrmacht...
...Checks. Last week was payoff time. In the Siegfried Line before Aachen, U.S. troops captured hastily trained boys, old reservists, convalescents from the Russian front...