Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the polls were opened it appeared that the arrangement might strike a snag. Poll watchers from the upstart G.I. Nonpartisan Ticket were embarrassingly overzealous. Sheriff Mansfield's deputies felt compelled to bundle one young watcher off to jail. When a Negro farmer turned up to vote in Precinct 11, an annoyed deputy shot him in the back. At the cramped polling place in the rear of the Dixie Cafe, khaki-shirted veterans could not seem to crowd their way up to the ballot...
...only loss, against B.U., was due in a large part to his extreme wildness, but he seemed to have discovered the strikezone in his second performance against the Squantum sailors, when, he allowed only one free ticket to the sailors...
...dire financial straits if it is, wouldn't it be more decent for it to shaw a little moral courage by raising the price of the Student's Participation Ticket enough to get the organization out of debt. Or did the price of handballs go up with the murder of OPA, causing increased operating costs To tax a student's wife, already hard pressed to find an occasional evening's recreation within her vet-husband's 90-buck budget, an extra 40-odd percent for a swim is a practice that surely will not bring praise to the Harvard Athletic...
...high-light of the game was Moravec's new found control. Vince's best showing in the walk department prior to Wednesday's tilt with Squantum was five passes, but he allowed only one free ticket to the sailors...
...Music Center's first season after a three-year war layoff, Koussevitzky & staff have handpicked 410 musicians, the majority under 30, from the U.S., Latin America and Canada. The summer's $100,000 budget is paid off by tuition fees (averaging $120 a student), ticket sales to festival concerts, and gifts. More than 100 students are there under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Aaron Copland, Koussevitzky's assistant director, trains eight young composers. Koussevitzky himself teaches three people how to conduct. At weekend concerts he listens carefully to their conducting efforts. Says he: "I see if they...