Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clouds hung low and heavy over the barnlike white (and for whites only) schoolhouse at Barnes, in Mississippi's rural Leake County. To the Barnes school-house one recent, showery, steaming day came four lawyers and an editor, all candidates for the nomination for governor on the Democratic ticket (the only one that counts) in next week's primary. In their speeches the five candidates all went straight to the point. This was no great accomplishment, since in Mississippi, in 1955, there is only one real political point: school segregation...
...against Tubman on the Independent True Whig ticket was an ex-President of Liberia named Edwin Barclay. Last week police surrounded his marble house, but they did not lay a hand on him. After all, his cousin, Antoinette Padmore Tubman, is Liberia's First Lady...
...entertained there. This stratagem was supposed to convince the boss that Desi was so popular that he should be rehired at double his pay. The boss was convinced, but so was Desi: he refused the job, under the illusion that his great popularity allowed him to write his own ticket anywhere. With this tired old comedy situation, the studio audience's roars of glee (stepped up to full volume by sound engineers) were received in many a living room in baffled silence...
Some huge foundation giving millions away for evaluations of education might do well to set up a fund to provide inpecunious college professors with ticket money for the drama...
...years and $10 million later, the repair work is almost finished, and Nov. 5 has been announced as the opening date. All winter, the ticket stampede was on: a total of 7,000 applications arrived for the 1,658 seats. From the U.S. came pleas backed by blank checks; others offered as much as $500 for one ticket. The problem of choosing the fortunate first-nighters became an affair of state. The Cabinet held special sessions. Finally, the question was settled in a fine, Habsburg-style compromise : the government decreed three "first nights." The first will be Don Giovanni, actually...