Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the apparatus had run for a day, the water grew pinkish, then turned red. After a week. Student Miller analyzed the mixture. It proved to contain at least three amino acids (glycine, alpha-alanine and beta-alanine). This was the hoped-for payoff: amino acids are the building blocks of which proteins are made...
Based on the last six races of each Sunday's meeting at the Caracas Hippodrome, the Five-and-Six splits 70% of a huge payoff pot among pickers of all six winners, the rest among pickers of five. The widow and her kids, choosing horses strictly on the poetic ring to their names, (e.g., Guadalupana, Sortilegio), filled in the form. She turned it in with a desperate prayer: "Dear God, help me-and if You can't, may it be the devil who will...
...came in." But Concepción Herrera & kids, all unknowing, had picked nothing but long shots, and every one a winner. Because no other player had chosen the same six, the whole 70% of the pot reserved for "sixers" went to her. It came to $267,500-the biggest payoff in the history of the Five-and-Six. Days later, she still had only vague notions about what to do with her fortune-except that she was quite determined not to marry again unless she meets a "fellow millionaire...
After a scoreless first half, the payoff play sent four receivers downfield in the third quarter. From among them, Substitute Tailback Rudy Bukich found Halfback Al Carmichael all alone in the end zone, hit him with a 22-yd. touchdown pass. Then, outlasting a Rose Bowl jinx that twice saw California lose to the Big Ten in the final minutes, the hopped-up Trojan defense stopped two more Wisconsin drives inside the 30. Final score, for the West Coast's first victory in seven lean years against the Midwest...
This week, for the payoff playoff, the rugged Lion defense let Cleveland's famed Quarterback Otto Graham & Co. roll up 22 first downs, but held them to just seven points. Meanwhile, Detroit's Quarterback Bobby Layne scored from two yards out, handed off to Doak Walker for a 67-yd. touchdown run. and held the ball while Veteran Pat Harder kicked a field goal. Final score that gave Detroit the world championship: 17-7. The payoff for the "have not" Lions: $2,275 apiece. Losing players' share...