Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only desperate bailing efforts, a great push, and the timely arrival of a rescue launch saved him from receiving an over-night parking ticket...
...election (as usual), Trujillo is backed by the Dominican Party, to which everybody in his Government, everybody in his monopolies, and nearly everybody who wants to do business, has to belong. Last time (May 1942), the Benefactor ran on the other party's ticket too. This time he waved his wand, and two phony opposition parties were created...
Undergraduates who are not degree candidates can obtain one standing room ticket apiece it was disclosed. They will be subject to the same application procedure and deadline. All applicants must call for their tickets in person at University Hall between 2 and 5 o'clock Tuesday or 9 and 5 o'clock Wednesday of the week of the ceremony...
...secret that they were privately counting on the Cabinet to furnish some of their best bets. One was Princeton-bred, Wall Street-trained Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, who some day might be Secretary of National Defense. He was geographically perfect, ideologically sound, would add tone to the ticket. His big drawback was that he had never even run for dogcatcher...
Until last November, even such a classified ad would hardly have lured a vice-presidential candidate to the Democratic ticket for 1948. But by last week, with Democratic hopes for victory still on the post-election rebound, headquarters could count on a swarm of prospects, who well remembered how Harry Truman himself had reached the White House...