Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile per hour pursuit became a life-and-death chase when, as the police car approached to issue a ticket, the passenger in the speeding car made a motion to pull...
...life was too utterly futile, everybody ought to live it to the hilt. "It is absurd for us to be born," proclaimed existentialism's protector, Jean-Paul Sartre. "It is absurd for us to die." For Parisian intellectuals, desperately in quest of an interesting pose, this was the ticket...
Vermont House Painter Patsy (for Pasquale) Santo exhibited his first canvas in 1938 in hopes of getting a free ticket to the Rutland State Fair. He did not get the ticket, but his landscape, painted in oils from the local drugstore, won the art competition at the fair. Patsy bought himself some more paints and brushes and has been painting ever since...
...parting gesture, to put any profits made into an AROTC student fund for the use of following classes. It was necessary to hire a ballroom for the dance, but this required a deposit of $50. The students were asked to make a deposit of $1.00 against the $2.50 ticket for the dance because the seniors themselves did not have the capital. This is certainly not a "cheap advertising trick," but merely a practical way of raising the capital...
...cadets have been subjected to various forms of persuasion in the past few weeks. They were first of all told that they were putting down the dollar deposit toward a $2.50 ticket and that the ticket would cost only $1.50. This sounds like cheap advertising tricks which say that an article is free if all you do is pay your postman C.O.D. In a recent class, paradoxically enough, the cadets were told that the dollar was for a reserve fund and had nothing to do with the dance finances. Furthermore, if a student did not go to the dance...