Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CASE OF THE CARELESS KITTEN- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Another brisk, shrewdly plotted and forthrightly told Perry Mason story, in which the adroit lawyer-sleuth cooperates with an intelligent and wary police lieutenant. Mason's analysis of feline antics supplies the payoff clue to an elusive killer and a pair of carefully contrived murders...
...payoff score was registered when Charles Burlington pulled down a long pass from Lester Katz and raced across the goal line. The Bunnies swept the other end of the twin bill as their Freshmen beat the Dunster Junior squad...
General Arnold used a payoff phrase in describing these fighters and their improved descendants. He said that they were "medium-altitude fighters." This meant that they did all right up to a certain altitude (General Arnold allowed them some 16,000 feet), but lagged above that height. But he left the impression that despite this limitation they were thoroughly satisfactory fighters...
Never did Navy come as close to payoff humus as did Harvard on these two thrusts. Every time the sailor backs got going, the holes in Harvard's line mysteriously closed and swallowed the ball carrier in a morass of Crimson jerseys. HARVARD-NAVY STATISTICS H N Points Scored 0 0 First Downs 5 12 Net Gain Rushing 71 164 Passes Attempted 11 9 Passes Completed 2 2 Gained by Passes 37 22 Passes Intercepted by 0 2 Gained by Interceptions 0 13 Number of Punts 13 12 Average Punts 37 38 Punt Runbacks 15 36 Number of Penalties...
...fountainhead of corruption, willing to interest itself in almost any matter designed to defeat or circumvent the law." No one could open a bawdy house or gambling dive without Mc-Donough approval, and a McDonough okay was insurance that the police would rarely drop around except for a payoff. The payoff ran into staggering figures. San Francisco's 135 "regular, old-established" brothels and its hundreds of freelance tarts paid $400,000 a year for protection, its bookmakers $180,000; total take from all forms of vice was about $1,000,000 a year...