Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young suburban housewife's get-acquainted coffee pour turns into a cruel social fiasco when an older woman who has posed as a friend suddenly does a commercial spiel on furniture polish in mid-party, and later presses a collapsible mop on the sobbing hostess as a payoff for the captive customers...
...Hall the President's decision was the payoff of a political bet made five months ago. After Ike's heart attack, when nearly everybody else in the U.S. wondered whether the President would be able to finish his first term let alone try for a second, Hall foresaw how much havoc Ike's failure to run would play with the Republican Party. "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it," he said, "and when I come to it, I'll jump off." On Sept. 26, two days after the heart attack, Hall announced...
...material witness, with bail set at $5,000 (later halved to the amount that sprang Billy). At week's end, Daniels, his local cabaret entertainer's card lifted, hopped off to Hollywood. Before he left, he was asked about rumors of a $10,000 hush-hush payoff to the cops. Shrugged Billy, who had been knocking down $10,000 a week at a brassy Manhattan nightclub: "I don't have that kind of money...
...next month in the half-hour period following $64,000 Question. The teasing title comes from the fact that married couples will be the contestants. A husband is asked whether he wants to answer a question himself -or "Do you trust your wife?" to answer it. The promised payoff is appropriately staggering: each week's winners get an income of $100 a week for a year and can come back the next week (without losing what they have already won) and try for more. Presumably a couple may win for 20 weeks running and thus get $100 a week...
EARTH! flashes a neon sign on a certain street corner at Place Pigalle. On the sidewalk, streetwalkers nudge potential customers, and if business is slow or feet begin to hurt, they drop into a tiny cremerie for a cognac or an ice cream or a payoff to a pimp. Behind the bar is Odette...