Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first question was tough: "Why do you vote so often with the Democrats and why don't you run on the Democratic ticket?" Glib Wayne Morse, a maverick on the Republican range who voted with the Democrats three times out of four in the 81st Congress, took nine minutes to answer it. Look up the Republican platform, he said, and you will find that the Morse record closely followed it. Other questioners wanted to know about the Columbia Valley Administration and the Administration's health insurance bill. He opposed CVA, he explained, because it would take control...
...labor project at Leuna, along with a group of German P.W.s. The Russians provided him with phony "German" identity papers, but never bothered to make him take off his British uniform. Last week Noel saw his chance. With the help of a sympathetic German fellow prisoner, he bought a ticket to Berlin, boarded a fast express at Leuna after the Russians had made their routine inspection and rode uninterrupted into Germany's British zone. His superiors accepted his tale and sent him to a hospital to fatten up. "I've been thinking about that girl," mused Private Moncaster...
Next in order are the Undergraduate Faculty (tutors) with 129 men, and the Speakers and Entertainers Committee, with 75 men. Other PBH committees this year include the Ticket Agency, the Brooks House Committee (primarily for freshmen), the Library Committee, and the Office Committee...
...impulse, Silvestro buys a ticket to his mother's village in Sicily. When he gets there, his mother is roasting a fish and the smell releases a lot of memories: how his mother's face had once been "young and awe-inspiring"; how, in poverty, they had dined on snails and endives, and relished them; how Silvestro's grandfather, a good Socialist, had also been a good enough Catholic to ride in the St. Joseph's Day parade. When his mother takes Silvestro on her rounds as a practical nurse, Silvestro begins to learn his lesson...
Peanut vendors and ticket-hawking gamins are unhappy, and so are the freshmen who'll be going to Saturday classes for the first time in their lives...