Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most mailmen do not rest their pleas merely on the sinister threat of "no sale, no mail." They usually remark that "everyone else in the entry bought a ticket and don't you realize that your small deflated dollar is going to help old retired mailmen who need it much more than you do, I'm sure." If one stands still and says nothing, the mailman will also stand and wait. If one says he has no dollar to spare just now, the mailman will plunk his ticket on the nearest flat surface with the promise to come back...
...Duluth City Council received a letter postmarked Athens, Greece, from one Jack Brockway, an Air Force lieutenant. In order to remain an upright local citizen, the young warrior wrote, he was enclosing 30,000 drachma (about $2) to pay for an old Duluth parking ticket. Safety Commissioner Ralph G. Fiskett announced that the ticket would be "on the house" and mailed the lieutenant a refund-in drachma...
Crimson ruggers played Montreal at Soldiers Field last Saturday in front of the largest University rugby crowd since 1939. The spectators, estimated from ticket sales at well over 600, saw the heavy home team bottle up the play in the Canadian end, and win an easy 6 to 0 victory...
...popular vote, "Ike" received over 240,000 write-in-votes on the Republican ticket . . . 136,000 more than Taft. Moreover, Eisenhower captured second place on the Democratic write-ins, with Senator Kefauver in first place...
...think I have the answer to all of our perplexities here tonight," he said, and read from a letter he had received that afternoon: "Honorable Governor Stevenson . . . You should marry Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and you should run for the presidential nomination and put Mrs. Roosevelt on the ticket for Vice President and you will go over big." Said Stevenson: "Now I propose to send this message to Mrs. Roosevelt with the respectful comment that I think it an excellent idea, but after all, this is leap year...