Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election day this had an effect. Republicans won all of the county contests, but they suffered an average 11% reduction in pluralities. Levittown, with 17,000 middle-class homes and a record of going 65% for the national Republican ticket in 1952, went Democratic...
...wife Zsa Zsa Gabor of discarding him "like a squeezed lemon," Cinemactor George (Call Me Madam) Sanders sued for divorce. He charged that, among other things, Zsa Zsa had left him "in a rundown condition." When she heard about the suit, Zsa Zsa cried: "George never bought a ticket or paid a hotel bill. He used my car, my house. This man didn't buy one hat for me ... I didn't even got an engagement ring . . . I'm a nice lady so I don't sue him, but he sues...
Halves of a Ticket. The selections reflect Layman Bristol's wish to make the hymnal, intended primarily for children, a "happy book." To appeal to children, they have stressed hymns about Christ's boyhood and everyday life, e.g.,O Master of the Callous Hand, Bristol's own My Master Was a Worker...
Says Commuter Bristol (who did much of the work on the hymnal on the train between his Princeton, N.Y. home and his Manhattan office) : "A man's Sunday self and his weekday self are like two halves of a round-trip ticket : not good if detached...
...story is as simple and deadly as the flight of a poisoned arrow. Its hero is Marius, a French sea captain who has lost his master's ticket for running a merchant ship into a known minefield during World War II, and whom rumor accuses of some greater, vaguer crime. By day he haunts the shipping offices of Marseille in his greasy old captain's uniform, cringing and wheedling for another command. By night he gets roaring drunk and tries to check his conscience and his failure at the local brothel...