Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indians' choice. As an earnest of British intentions to get out as soon as possible, His Majesty's Government had promised Dominion status to the two Indias as soon as they could set up governments to receive British power. Said Dickie Mountbatten: "I've got my ticket bought for August 15th...
...obvious that an old name still worked magic in Ecuador. The man who led the ticket last week was the ex-playboy son of General Leonidas Plaza, twice the country's President and strong man. He was also well known in North America. He had fought bulls in Ecuador, played football at the University of California, sold apples on Manhattan streets when his father cut off his allowance, and shipped as a junior purser with the Grace Line...
...supporting this major bit of tradition, the undergraduates, aided and abetted by the CRIMSON, beat the inevitable tattoo on the hapless skull of the H.A.A. The subject? Ticket distribution, of course. From the first game, when it was claimed that non-University personnel sat in cheering section seats, to the last, when inept distribution of tickets was alleged, the Athletic Association was on the receiving end of a steady drum-fire of adverse publicity...
...Maggie discouraged strangers from coming up the mountain. They came down only to vote the straight Republican ticket, to pick up supplies and to get their old-age pension checks. The checks were one modern convenience to which Gil had no objection. With them, he and Maggie got along fine until the winter of 1946. Then they fell sick, almost froze to death, and were taken by a rescue party to a hospital at Suffern. When they got well, they were sent to the Rockland County poor farm...
...started out with $300 in cash and traveler's checks, a $500 letter of credit-and by cutting his first corner. He had a friend in Honduras buy his T.W.A. round-trip plane ticket from San Francisco to Rome and mail it to him. That saved the 15% U.S. tax ($158). Other tourists would not save as much by this trick. The tax is now in effect only on domestic travel. He met the black market in Paris the first time he handed the clerk in his hotel U.S. dollars to exchange. The clerk, who was running...