Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valid for quick take-offs to new trouble spots, both men apply for new visas immediately on returning from any country. At first, legation officials objected: "But you've just come back." But now, reports Richardson: "They know us and treat us like commuters buying a new monthly ticket for the 8:05." On a recent return to Beirut, the first two questions asked Richardson by his three year old daughter, Hilary, were: "Where have you been, daddy? . . . Where are you going, daddy...
...private agricultural empires, the John H. Shary Enterprises, built up by his father-in-law, Shivers is a natural spokesman of anti-Truman Texas farmers and cattlemen, but he has squirmed uneasily at the possibility that he might have to lead his party in actual revolt against the national ticket. To stiffen Shivers' backbone. South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes took him under his wing last year, arranged Shivers' election as chairman of the Southern Governors' Conference...
However, if Ike's name appears on a "Texas Democrat" as well as the Republican ticket, he will be hard to beat in Texas...
...desert cities and oases of North Africa-followed the Koran's injunction and swarmed into the Lebanese city of Beirut,* the usual way-station on the road to Mecca. Each clutched in the voluminous folds of his ihram (the pilgrim's sheetlike uniform), an airline ticket to Jidda, the airport nearest the holy city...
...since 1856, and family tradition ("My grandfather founded the Republican Party"*). Last week, however, the colonel decided that "I will be imposed upon no longer" and announced that "the time has come to organize . . . the American Party." Though he suggested that the American Party should not nominate a presidential ticket until 1956, the colonel nonetheless had a current battle plan for would-be members. The McCormick plan: Give no support to either Eisenhower ("I Too Ike") or Stevenson ("the nominee of the C.I.O."), but concentrate on voting for such "patriotic candidates" for Congress as Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy...