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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undistinguished first term, Billy O'Neill demonstrated nothing so much as a knack for ruffling the feathers of party roosters, e.g., by trying-vainly-to kick out influential Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Chairman A. L. De Maioribus, and by failing to mention anyone else on the state party ticket in his primary campaign opener last spring. O'Neill's last-minute endorsement of the right-to-work amendment on the ballot this fall has put him squarely in the sights of Labor's powerful COPE (Committee on Political Education), which has pushed a registration drive to swell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: KEY RACES TO THE STATEHOUSE | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

American World Airways discharged Manhattan Ticket Clerk Joan March, 20 (real name: Marchesani), because she looked too provocative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Beauty & the Boss | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...occasion a patrolman questioned while in the act of presenting a ticket was unable to explain the law being violated...

Author: By Norman Holly, | Title: PARKING | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

...pinched some hogs from farmers in the last town, and the Gratz fuzz (cops) had sent them packing. Billed simply as "Stella," for its leading stripper, the girlie show was doing all right-neither rain nor dark of night, only the mark's initial embarrassment, ever slows its ticket sales. But even when the sun came out to dry the midway, the carnies at Gratz knew that it was time to strike their tents and head south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No More Rubes | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...that a mark (sucker) got much for his money when he bought a ticket (50? for adults, 30? for kids) to Lew Alter's sideshow. It cost an extra dime to see the "Pickled Punk" (two questionable sets of Siamese twins preserved in formaldehyde), another quarter for a glimpse of Carmelita, the "Hermaphrodite." ("Ladies on one side of the curtain, please, and the gentlemen on the other. Wives may stand with their husbands.") Following the colonel himself past the animal cages was an olfactory experience. Living in a trailer with Devil, the two-nosed dog, a spider monkey named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No More Rubes | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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