Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Post's outfit filed forward for the payoff battle of San Juan Hill, it seemed as if they were being reviewed by a long-legged, black-clad civilian on muleback who sported a red tie and a straw boater. It was William Randolph Hearst, whose yacht lay offshore. "Hey, Willie!" yelled the troops. The deadpan press lord managed only the ghost of a smile, doffed his boater and said mildly, "Boys, good luck be with...
...Payoff. If it has defaulted on ownership, INRA has brought to the peasant a definite, though perhaps temporary economic advance. In Oriente province, called the "cradle of the revolution," the INRA boss is Major René Vallejo, a bearded, widely-loved obstetrician. Blowing a kiss into the air, he shouts, "We are doing beautifully!" The 1,400 workers on Vallejo's Twenty Roses and Camilo Cienfuegos cooperative farms last week collected their pay-about $2.70 a day, up $1 from the old scale - and happily lined up to buy ice cream or have their pictures snapped, at 25? each...