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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the first time the game has been played in an areas of that size. All proceeds from ticket sales will go to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooke Will Play for North In Lacrosse All-Star Match | 6/5/1952 | See Source »

...posters outside the Beacon Hill theatre put a puzzling question to the moviegoer. "Should a girl confide her innermost secrets--dare she?" Intrigued by this and stimulated by suggestive captions on equally suggestive publicity photos, he buys a ticket to Tomorrow Is Too Late. But the moviegoer's illusions about seeing another Silvana Mangano in action fizzle rapidly when he discovers that the film is dedicated "to children and to adults who forget they were once children." Despite these handicaps, Tomorrow Is Too Late is an entertaining movie...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Tomorrow Is Too Late | 6/3/1952 | See Source »

...coal miner, never made much of a mark around coal-mining Nanticoke. But he proved to be an aggressive campaigner, charged that the politicians in power were allowing horse books, slot machines and punchboards to run in Nanticoke, was elected mayor in 1949 on an antigambling "Reform" ticket. Last summer he put his own "Independent Citizens" slate up for election in the Republican primary. His opponents replied with a half-page ad in the weekly Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent, making the public charge that Dreier had bought a new car and a $15,000 home shortly after being elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reformer Reformed | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...koala bears, kangaroos, and pit vipers. But it didn't. After spending ten minutes or so exhibiting savages, lizards, and bounding wallabies, Kangaroo turned out to be nothing but a displaced Western. The kangaroos had about as much to do with the proceedings as the man who tears your ticket in half at the door...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Kangaroo | 5/31/1952 | See Source »

...relentlessly tracks down its red prey. But while its success is due to modern science in Walk East on Beacon, it is due on ancient fate and blind luck in The Atomic City . Save for a junior, tow-headed edition of Lanny Budd on a bicycle and a raffle ticket, Joe Stalin might be sitting in the White House even now, the country's cities in ruins...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: The Atomic City | 5/29/1952 | See Source »

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