Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge policeman at the meeting remarked that students often tear up parking tickets. "I sometimes see yesterday's ticket on the floor of the car when I ticket it the next day," he added...
...Salem. In a curious reversal of roles, however, the General Court seemingly upheld civil liberties by refusing funds for the enterprise. Lacking any other resource, the crafty trustees held a series of lotteries and, in 1794, hit the jackpot, winning their own ten thousand dollar prize on a redeemed ticket. After this victory of the righteous, there was enought money to build Holworthy as well as Stoughton. In 1805, new Stoughton appeared as a facsimile of Hollis, a mere shadow, robbed even of its distinctive coat of arms...
Leading the ticket was Morris B. Sachs, South Side garment merchant and local TV impresario (Sacks' Amateur Hour), who ran for city treasurer. In the Democratic primary, Morris Sachs went down to defeat with outgoing Mayor Martin Kennelly, wept in Kennelly's arms while cameras recorded his sorrow (TIME, March 7). Sad Sachs dried his tears when he was offered a place on the organization's ticket. In campaign speeches he recalled fondly: "I sold Dick Daley's mother the first pair of long pants for Dick. Without me, where would he be?" His reward...
...week long, curly-haired Jerome Cefalu, 19, was as busy as a major-league pitcher chucking baseballs at a country carnival-and he was just as unwelcome. Every 15 minutes he was back in line buying a ticket to fish the trout pond at the Milwaukee Sentinel's sport show. He paid his money all right-in seven days Jerry shelled out about $50-but he snagged so many fish that he drove the trout-pond operators frantic...
...Sentinel's 1955 show, after a week of watching him work their pond, the authorities finally decided that Jerry was a public nuisance, and refused to sell him another ticket. Jerry's father, who had been serving the boy's catch at his New Colony Inn in Milwaukee, promptly got a court order restraining the show from barring his son. But the sport show managers still refused to let Jerry cast another fly. Before Jerry was banned, he had already caught more than 100 trout. Prizes: a five-day Las Vegas vacation, plus three one-week vacations...