Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club applied last spring for assistance, since the government had sent similar groups abroad previously. Ticket admissions alone could not cover the cost of the European trip, according to Noel J. Tyl '58, manager of the Glee Club...
Many years ago some Indians were playing rugby in the Garden of Eden with a Harvard man who insisted upon carrying the ball and kicking extra points. Thus American football, new and exciting, came into being. As spectator crowds got bigger and bigger, another Harvard man decided to sell tickets and the HAA ticket office was born. Eventually both enterprises became very complicated institutions...
...pair of socks every 29 years, a suit every 98 years. "How dare you relax our rationing system when you have a shortage of goods?" raged one officer. Replied Erhard jubilantly: "I have not relaxed rationing; I have abolished it." To his countrymen he proclaimed: "The only ration ticket now is the mark." He asked for an interview with U.S. General Lucius Clay. "Herr Erhard," said Clay, "my advisers tell me this is a terrible mistake." Answered Erhard: "General Clay, pay no attention. My advisers tell me the same thing...
They did. As Volkswagen Maker Heinz Nordhoff said, "From then on, things went." Elected to the Bundestag as a Christian Democratic Deputy in 1949, Erhard took over the Economics Ministry in Konrad Adenauer's first Cabinet. He prodded, exhorted, bullied, preached productivity and sleepless enterprise as the ticket to German recovery. He offered generous tax concessions for enterprisers who would build new plants, other tax inducements to those who could sell their products abroad. He used his power to reduce tariffs and import quotas to beat down the raw-material prices for Germany's expanding factories, boldly encouraged...
...wrote the playscript, in a phrase that has become a Broadway byword. Said O'Hara: "It ain't Blossom Time" It sure ain't, but it is a dandy piece of entertainment−the sad, hilarious story of how a kept man lost his meal ticket. It has some of the spunkiest and most graceful music Richard Rogers ever wrote, some wackily witty, leering lyrics ("The way to my heart is unzipped again") by the late Lorenz Hart, and a number of dances that appear to be very hard on shoe leather but are plenty easy...