Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Payoff. In Battle Creek, Mich., 74-year-old James M. Pier won a divorce when he complained that his wife wore him out dragging him to bingo games...
Doctors were aghast at an eight-degree jump last night as the patient sat with a thermometer between blanched lips and a Daily Record (Payoff Edition) clutched in hand...
...late he recalls that he was seen entering the girl's apartment by a man, identity unknown. The publisher sets out to find the witness. He puts the super-sleuthing editor (Ray Milland) of his detective magazine on the trail. Milland is told that he is after "a payoff man in an enormous war-contract scandal," but it doesn't take him long to find out that he is really chasing himself: he was the witness...
There is reason to believe that Radcliffe's interest is part of the payoff for New England's nationwide advertising of its winter sport. Sally Leavitt '49 is sure of it. The daughter of the headmaster of Vermont Academy, whose Winter Carnival 40 years ago gave a Dartmouth junior the inspiration for Hanover's first similar event, she has seen skiing history made in her own state...
...found a federation of their own. Ibáñez fought back, breaking with Lombardo and C.T.A.L., but he would probably have been licked if Chilean President Gabriel González Videla had not jettisoned the Communists and become his friend. Last week's conference was the payoff. C.I.T.'s new president knows better than to tie up with the Communists again. Says he: "The Commies are going to use every dirty trick in the bag. We are ready for them...