Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a few weeks before its smash opening, the festival had looked like a spectacular flop. Before a single ticket had been sold, the committee was more than $100,000 in debt for the experimental tent theater. Production costs soared to $220,000. Promotor Tom Patterson, the Stratford magazine editor who first thought of the festival, had been able to collect only $40,000 from local contributors...
...York City's politicians like to make speeches against racial discrimination, but they always discriminate rigidly when they are making up a slate of candidates. In the old days, most mayors had to be Irishmen; today, the political bosses* of all parties feel that a "balanced ticket" must include one Italian and one Jew. By last week, it was clear that another somewhat neglected minority group merited top-drawer political consideration for the Sept. 15 primary: New York's 750,000 Negroes...
...together, each parcel was worth about $1,15-not much by Western standards, but plainly a treasure to East Germans. Most came with identity cards of all their family, and some few friends besides, and got a parcel for each one. "I paid 28 marks for my train ticket," said one bedraggled housewife from deep in the Soviet zone, "but I have cards of my husband and children. All the money and the waiting are worth it. The lard, above...
...week's end abruptly shut off all highway and rail traffic to Berlin from five East German provinces. That effectively halted the hungry invasion of West Berlin: lines dropped to a trickle. But East German railroad men reported angry mobs at stations all along their route, storming the ticket offices, and clashing helplessly with armed troops and club-wielding cops...
...came home to a restless career as a tramp newspaperman. Recalls Little: "Some copyreader or some louse of an editor would get rough with my magnificent prose, and I'd feel in my pocket to see how much dough I had. If I had enough for a railroad ticket, I'd resent what he'd done and walk out. If I was broke, I'd wait until payday and then resent." Little resented his way from Cleveland to Chicago, Paris, Wichita and Oklahoma City. Along the way, he stored up inspiration for a song called Flat...