Word: payoff
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...payoff was that Casey hadn't finished that issue yet. It took all his tact to get the magazine back before he could take off again...
...Payoff. The German command reacted as if. the capture of Merkers and its mine had been so much salt in the Wehrmacht's deep wounds. Near Mühlhausen, about 30 miles northeast, the Germans opened the most concerted resistance Patton's men had met in many days. The Germans lost 40 tanks in one day, came back for more wounds and lost ten the next...
...were reported streaming westward to meet his thrusts) or by the demands of supplying his tanks. Patton's armor had sunk the deepest wedge into Germany; his spearheads were only 175 miles from the Russians and the Germans were jumpy over any Patton move. One might be the payoff stroke that would cut Germany in two at the waist...
...third morning was payoff time: the convoy was off Mindoro. As the sky lightened behind Mindoro's peaks, destroyers and rocket ships raced inshore, laying down a barrage on the flat, inviting coast. No settlement was to be shelled unless Japs were detected, and none were...
...patient, meticulous man; wartime West Point and its hard-studying, hard-drilling Cadets are right out of a football coach's dream. For six weeks Army Coach Blaik had carefully nursed his blessings, polishing his flashing T attack, proving his line, patiently pre paring for a payoff. Last week, suped-up to their mental and physical peak, the Cadets exploded against Notre Dame...