Word: stubbing
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...Shopping-center-bound parents drop off their youngsters (ages five to ten) at Adelman's Kidpix flicks. Each child is identified by < a numbered claim check signed by a parent. Mom and Dad are given a beeper in case they need to be reached while in stores, and a stub matching their child's number, which they must present in order to fetch the child. Price...
...Wilderness, Cold Harbor, where men were so sure of death that they pinned their names and addresses on their jackets for easy identification when they fell. And at last, the mythy set piece of Appomattox, where Lee came as the elegant last cavalier, and Grant, a shabby cigar stub of a man, appeared in dusty blues open at the throat, one button in the wrong hole, no sword, to embody the victory of some other American principle...
...items unearthed were bits of human bones, a scattering of teeth and what the crews will describe only as "some personal effects." For the untrained, the bone fragments would be hard to recognize, often looking like nothing more than pieces of gray pumice the size of a cigar stub...
...relatively untarnished memory, but those "in this business" should be able to retain the right to some privacy and still make their careers in film. That celebrities may, as some courts have characterized it, invite speculation into their private lives does not endow every fan to exchange their ticket stub and the price of some rag for a detailed account of someone's private life...
...Browine troop, and the popcorn roasting chestnuts over an open fire. Before the screening began last Thursday at the Sack Charles, a local dee-jay stood up front and called out the ticket numbers of the proud winners of a giant Rick Springfield poster. I looked at my ticket stub blandly What would my roommate...