Word: tip
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Hughes, who is notoriously distrustful of everyone, became suspicious of some of his Las Vegas employees last February after a tip-off from federal investigators, who are investigating corruption in the Hughes Nevada operation. Huge kickbacks, it was said, were received on the purchases of old and largely worthless Nevada mining properties, for which Hughes had paid $2,000,000 more than they were worth. In another deal, one prospective seller was asked for a $250,000 payoff in return for persuading the boss to buy a piece of land on the Las Vegas Strip. Payments were demanded from entertainers...
...song, none of which make me want to buy the sound track. Aside from the mediocrity of the music, the problem is that Dickens is already about as full of sentimentality as a writer can be without being positively offensive, and this kind of music is occasionally enough to tip the scale...
Harvard scored its prettiest goal of the evening with six minutes left in the second period. Owen centered the puck to DeMichele who fired from about 20 feet out. The shot was just wide to the right, but McManama was there to tip the shot behind Higgins...
With Cambodia and Kent State and the student strike in May, Studds waited expectantly for the onslaught of student volunteers said to be flocking to congressional campaigns. The tip-off should have come one day in late May, when organizers for Movement for a New Congress (MNC) promised 200 volunteers to canvass, and five showed up. But throughout the spring and summer Studds coordinators diligently sought out the students with little or no success. During the two-week break of the Princeton Plan, exactly five students showed up to work. Only on November 3 did students from the Boston area...
Bozek had his best game to date, scoring 15 points and getting five assists. He and Lewis, who tallied 20 points mainly on tip-ins, helped the team inch ahead by 13 midway through the second half, and with a boost from sophomore forward Eric Fox, who came off the bench to grab seven rebounds in 11 minutes. Harvard stretched its advantage...