Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voters in one barrio went to the polls with envelopes containing carbon paper, so they could make copies of their ballots to prove they had voted for Quirino's Liberal, ticket, as required by the men who bought their votes. In Pasay a city near Manila, armed toughs marched into several polling places and made off with the ballot boxes. In Precinct 99 of Manila, a masked man deposed the election commissioner and announced that he would count the votes. His tally: Quirino. 149; Magsaysay. 1. There was some violence, ten deaths (six of them in gang-ridden Cavite...
...with his lost son and a daughter-in-law, but with five grandchildren and a great-grandson, aged one. They had lived less than two miles apart for more than 25 years. "It's odd," Fred told John, "to think that you must have given me a bus ticket hundreds of times, and neither of us ever wondered who the other...
...orphan asylums. He had never traveled beyond the New York area until at 16 he ran away, lied about his age and joined the Marines. After 18 months in the Pacific, he was discharged, attended the University of Southern California for three years, then bought a one-way ticket to Europe with his $250 New York State serviceman's bonus. In Paris, he lived on his $75 G.I. Bill allowance, finally talked Variety into letting him do occasional reporting. Three months later, he went to the Paris Herald Tribune, and last year persuaded the paper to run his column...
...Whoever knowingly procures or obtains any ticket or tickets, or any form of transportation to be used by any woman or girl in interstate commerce in going to any place for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery or purpose to so induce, entice or compel...
When the last requisition has been handled, the tickets are mailed out to all those who have enclosed an extra dime. The rest pick them up at the Y.A.A. on the Monday prior to the game or thereafter. Hence ticket purchasing is no fight at Yale, and the Eli gets hot under the collar only during his Saturday duel...