Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no such thing as a nonpolitical Soviet official. But Barmine had kept as far away from politics as possible. He had always voted the straight Stalinist ticket. He had immersed himself in his diplomatic chores and a Baedekerian interest in Greek architecture and antiquities. During the early days of the Purge, people he knew were dropping right & left in Russia. But Barmine hoped that the bullets would somehow miss...
Where's the Fire? In Albuquerque, N.M., a cab driver bucked a one-way street, crashed a red light, illegally double-parked, collected his fare and a multiple traffic ticket from his passenger, Plainclothesman Bill Bellamy...
...also to reverse itself (as in the Jehovah's Witnesses case), Justice Roberts had plunked down a few tart phrases of his own. Said he: the Court had now set forth on an "uncharted sea of doubt and difficulty"; some of its decisions were like a "restricted railroad ticket, good for this day and train only...
...arched picture-ceiling, put up in 1913, had never before been repainted. It was a ticklish job. The busy, perpetually thronged space beneath it could not be shut off-and a mere half pint of paint dropped no feet might permanently discolor a man buying a railroad ticket or kissing his wife goodbye. The redecoration was finished, without mishap, by 30 workmen standing on the largest suspended scaffold ever built...
...check "on account" front Boston was enough to buy a $100 war bond, a new suit, and pay off the $3 which his steady girl friend, Sue Summer, had been obliged to advance for their ticket to the senior prom...