Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Summer School students for the Rudolf Serkin piano performance at Castle Hill on Saturday night. Buses will leave from Thayer Gate at 5:30 and should arrive at Ipswich around 7:00. Cost of the excursion is $5.00 including a clam supper on the beach and a $2.50 ticket to the performance. Anyone who would rather eat lobster may feel free to pay 75 cents extra and do so. Estimated time of return is midnight...
...with Alabama to yield its No. 1 spot on the national Democratic roll call so that his name will be the first placed in nomination. If all else fails, he hinted, he might be willing to swap Kentucky's 30 votes for the vice-presidential spot on a ticket with New York's Averell Harriman...
...GREIXAS! WHAT TANTRUMS. The polite but disapproving headline of London's Daily Sketch all but marked the end of U.S. hopes to hang on to the Wimbledon title that Tony Trabert used last year as his ticket to the pro ranks...
Britons saw their first Report from America last February. Called Roads and Traffic, it opened with a shot of a London policeman writing out a parking ticket for some hapless Briton, switched to a Manhattan policeman doing the same thing for a glum American motorist. There were the nerve-jarring traffic jams as well as the glossy six-lane highways, and the whole was pleasantly salted with a wry and unpretentious commentary. Reaction was immediate. "An outstanding event," said the Sunday Times. "Visual journalism at its best," said the South Wales Echo. "A winner," said the London Evening News. Just...
Point of View. In Plainview, Tex., after she was ticketed for backing out of a parking space into an oncoming car, Housewife Sarah Ona Baxter told the judge: "I think it's a crying shame that you give me a ticket and not the man I hit. He could see me backing out a lot better than I could...