Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marga had an especially pleasant visit from Raymond. As he was going, she pressed a small piece of candy into his mouth. "Merci," said Raymond and departed. Later he was seized with fearful cramps. He had just enough strength to scribble on the back of a métro ticket: "The candy Marga gave me tasted strange." A few days later he was dead. Police called on Marga, but soon dropped the case...
...fight left. In the stretch, Texas Sandman took the lead, wobbled a bit toward the rail, but brazened it out to win first place and $45,150. For a six-year-old, that was pretty good: almost 180 times his $250 purchase price as a yearling. A $2 win ticket on him was worth...
When a diplomat once asked Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin what his foreign policy really was, Bevin replied: "To go down to Victoria Station, get a railway ticket and go where the hell I like without a passport or anything else...
When the Harvard Athletic Association went "big-time" and hired out the Boston Garden for a series of home basketball games, everyone benefited but the student fan. Charged sixty cents for admittance to games that were included in the price of a pre-war participation ticket, forced to travel across town and sit through whatever spectacle Garden authorities had rigged up to supplement Harvard basketball contests, the undergraduate partisan now finds himself isolated in the corners of the arena while the game goes on half-a-block and 15 pillars away...
Mexicans themselves had a phrase for it: "The dance of the millions." Next month, for the first time in Mexican history, the National Lottery will hold a $2 million drawing. But a complete ticket costs $400, is not for the ordinary man. The bullfight, once the national sport, has also become the privilege of the few; big spenders pay from $20 to $30 for a seat each Sunday. At the jai-alai Frontōon four nights a week the betting is hysterical...