Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thanked him, bought a ticket and the traditional bag of peanuts, and stepped onto a boat. As we peddled along slowly, the ducks dabbled for peanuts, pigeons fluttered and landed on our brass rail, and grackles cawed and clucked on the ponds little island. On the boat itself, two children lost their pinwheels and a third hit a nearby pigeon's flank with a well-aimed peanut. The ride was as the skipper had said, though, smooth, gliding, and graceful--just like a swan...
...excellent evening of Menotti. Next week it will be Orpheus and Patience on one hand and selected O'Neill on the other. Many who would like to attend all the productions will only see two or three of them, and each show will cut into the other's ticket sales. But this is nothing: last spring theatrical activities vacillated between a choke of four and five shows one weekend and none the next, forcing an alternate glut and fast on theatergoers. As good a production as the freshman Twelfth Night never made it out of the red because...
...fare from fourpence to fivepence, would go on collecting the higher fare. The thousands of Negro bus riders, commuting from the segregated locations outside the city, would continue to ride for the old price by the simple process of paying fourpence for coupons exchangeable for a fivepenny bus ticket. The difference would be taken care of by a special fund raised by the employers and merchants of Johannesburg, who cared far less for the principles involved than for the man-hours and sales they were losing in the dispute...
...most intriguing aspect of Marx's first and last association with the U.S. press, Hale suggests, is that "the Tribune was not only Marx's meal ticket but his experimental outlet for agitation and ideas during the most creative period in his life. Had there been no Tribune sustaining him, there might possibly-who knows?-have been no Das Kapital. And had there been no Das Kapital, would there have been a Lenin and a Stalin? And without Marxist Lenin and Stalin, in turn, would there have been...
Around End, No Gain. In Baltimore, Anthony Caminiti angrily tore his parking ticket into shreds, muttering, "If I've got to pay it, I guess I can do what I want with it." was promptly arrested for littering the streets...