Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strictly speaking, Joe Suk shouldn't have been on the front at all. After almost two years of continuous fighting he had just got his first ten-day furlough ticket so that he could go back to his village to marry a childhood sweetheart. Charlie Company had sent the hat round and collected $250 for Joe, and issued him a mock-formal order: "Have a good time." A Katusa (Korean attached to U.S. troops) and thereby not eligible for rotation, he had been up to the Yalu and back again with the Wolfhounds, fighting, said one G.I., "with...
...personable American named Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "He simply becomes electric when there is any royalty around," said one of the actor's friends. "Entree into the Fairbankses' home," wrote a catty columnist in the Daily Sketch last week, "is a hundred times more difficult than getting a ticket for the coronation...
Later in the day, Vatican messengers, who once carried their news on fast horses, climbed into black Cadillacs and Fords to bring the biglietto di nomina (ticket of nomination) to each nominee...
...Merriam, 78, longtime (1900-40) professor of political science at the University of Chicago; of a cerebral-hemorrhage; in Rockville, Md. As an educator looking for practical experience, he twice served as a Chicago alderman and ran a losing campaign in 1911 for mayor of Chicago on the Republican ticket (his campaign manager: Old Curmudgeon Harold Ickes...
...college still for it. Strangely enough, from what quotes have appeared in the press recently, it would seem that their wards are not much worried, however. The man who was supposed to benefit most from the two-platoon system, the player, in many cases favors the one-way ticket...