Word: ticket
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Padded Bricks & Padded Bills. For many a victim, an auto accident is a ticket to a lottery in which the value of his injuries depends on a lawyer's skill and a jury's unpredictable sympathies. About half the time, in fact, juries in personal-injury cases decide for the defendant rather than the person claiming to be hurt. Yet some juries are markedly munificent. A Philadelphia jury gave $500,000 to a man injured in a taxi crash who claimed he suffered "excessive pain" in his back when anything touched it, even his clothing. A San Diego...
...would definitely try to be nominated. He had, said Stassen, visited Ike at Gettysburg several times and was encouraged to run after he got a letter from Eisenhower last month saying "you may be sure that there will be no lack of effort on my part to elect the ticket you should be heading"-if by some quirk Stassen should wind up heading a ticket somewhere...
Eventually Stavros, toughened by violence and more than ever obsessed with his American dream, learns to be cruel. In the film's most successful sequence, he courts a prosperous rug merchant's plain, pure daughter (Linda Marsh), planning to appropriate her dowry to buy a steamer ticket. He is tempted by the family's kindness until his prospective father-in-law (Paul Mann) describes the future: "You'll be old and I'll be old, and we'll sit here and drink and eat and undo the tops of our trousers and take...
...spot of Christmas shopping, the squire of Birch Grove boarded a first-class railway carriage at Haywards Heath station near his home in exurbanite Sussex. Curtained by the Times, he rode in upper-crust anonymity into London's Victoria Station, fumbled absentmindedly for his pass at the ticket barrier, and left the station on foot. His destination this time was not 10 Downing Street or Admiralty House, but 12 Catherine Place, where Harold Macmillan stayed last week with his son Maurice and daughter-in-law Katie...
...gave Zarur 6% of the vote and fourth place among presidential candidates-trailing only ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, Governors Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara State and Adhemar de Barros of Sao Paulo State. Even before the poll, claim Zarur's lieutenants, Kubitschek offered him second place on the Kubitschek ticket. Zarur stayed with Jesus...