Word: ticket
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...magistrate's hearing. In civil as well as criminal cases, the government pays the bill if a British defendant (or plaintiff) cannot afford a lawyer. Most British courts, though not all, offer the same aid to accused Americans. Convicted aliens are commonly sentenced to buy a one-way ticket home. So easy is Britain on errant Americans that arrested Britons have been known to claim U.S. citizenship...
...Goldwater won South Carolina by 93,000 votes-in 1964. Senator Strom Thurmond, a Dixiecrat who turned Republican last year, will be running in a separate race at the same time and, as the state's best vote-getter, will undoubtedly attract support for the entire G.O.P. state ticket...
...colleges, opened it at random, put his finger on the first words he saw: "Skagit Valley Junior College, Mt. Vernon, Washington." Then and there, he wrote a letter; two weeks later he had a scholarship; nine months later, thanks to the people of Mount Vernon, he had a plane ticket...
This ideal was in Patrick's mind throughout; but unfortunately due to competing musical events in town, ticket sales had not reached expectations. A boost over a TV news program the morning of the concert was his answer, and he asked my helping publicizing the event by sending a Glee Club octet for a short sport at 7:20 a.m. When he learned that my choice of eight singers included a Negro, he warned that this octet, appearing at the beginning of the day would give segregationists a chance to organize violence or threats of violence which could thus undo...
Broken Rules. At 15, Nureyev joined the Ufa Opera's corps de ballet, saved his money, and a year later bought a one-way ticket to Leningrad to audition for the Kirov. Though by Russian standards he was about six years late in beginning his formal training, he was accepted for the Kirov's ballet school. He immediately distinguished himself as its most brilliant and most unmanageable student, violated every curfew regulation, fought with his instructors. He lectured a teacher in front of the whole company on the evils of the Kirov's "systematic wearing-down...