Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much the Oregon vote which had done it as Stassen's own cocky and imprudent campaign. He had irritated Bob Taft by going into Ohio. Long before Oregon, he had antagonized Dewey by loudly announcing that under no circumstances would he be caught running on the same ticket with New York's governor. Oregon had deepened the ill will. Taft and Dewey would certainly be allied against him at Philadelphia. Mighty powerful backing would be needed to override their influence, even to get Stassen the nomination for Vice President...
Dispossessed: Rumania's ex-King Michael (and family*), for "carrying on increasing maneuvers abroad against the interests of the Rumanian people." They lost 159 castles, 400,000 acres of land, 3,991,502 shares of stock, some yachts, and the right to vote the straight ticket (Communist...
...Grand Prix is no Sunday drive. The tortuous 198-mile course zigzags through narrow city streets, swoops uphill & down. In the 1937 race, a Frenchman drove over a cliff into the sea, and one Italian ended Up with his radiator embedded in the ticket office of Monte Carlo's railroad station. Last week, after 50 laps (halfway), eleven of the 19 cars in the race had quit. But Igor, gripping the wheel of his No. 36, a crimson Ferrari, was still in the running. Then it happened...
Casey Sills gets along fine with his trustees. They even forgave him when he ran for Senator on the Democratic ticket ("That's not really being in politics in Maine," he explains). But two years from now, he will give the trustees their first real problem: Casey will be 70, an age when Bowdoin presidents retire...
...Siritzky International) are a young Parisian couple. Antoine (Roger Pigaut) works in a printing plant, Antoinette (Claire Maffei) in a five &,ten. They live in a two-room walkup. He yearns to own a motorcycle, she to live in a new apartment. One day they hold a winning lottery ticket that underwrites their dreams. But before he can collect, Antoine loses the stub...