Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England. At last it took them to Grime's Graves in Norfolk, a dark, fir-grown hollow where Stone Age man from earliest times dug flint with staghorn picks. Norfolk country people shun the spot, and call it "the evil place." But for the Rudges, it was the payoff...
...last week Georgia Gibbs, determined to be just "a meat and potatoes girl," was picking up a handsome payoff. Her gimmickless Mercury recording of Kiss of Fire had sold well over 1,000,000 copies, was one of the summer's big hits. She was as surprised as anybody, but there was no doubt about her success: nightclub crowds demand the song in every show; song pluggers dog her footsteps. And another Gibbs record, So Madly in Love, is laddering up the bestseller lists...
...Airlocks were installed in the mine to seal in "curative" gases. To keep the procession of health-seekers in order, there is a flossy reception room where each visitor gets a number assigning him to a seat in the 85-ft. lateral. Downtown, a cashier handles the payoff: $100 for each visitor, which entitles him to four one-hour sessions underground...
Recent graduates registered the only complaints that any alumni have against the School. They contend that they spent two years "learning to act like corporation presidents, and then they found little use for it." But old-timers reply, "Have patience. The payoff comes after five years...
Then came the payoff. In Amsterdam last week, Albert Besnard, a naval affairs editor, of the daily Algemeen Handelsblad, read Le Monde's "document" and thought it had a vaguely familiar ring. Digging into his closet, Besnard found some old copies of the Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute. In the September 1950 issue he found an article by Commander Anthony Talerico, U.S.N., entitled "Sea of Decision." Almost word for word, many parts of it were identical with the so-called "Fechteter report." Instead of being a state paper, the arguments were the hazy theorizing of an unknown junior...