Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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June used to be the season when college seniors got off Pop's back and onto a payroll. But across the nation's campuses this year, the B.A. or the B.S. is mostly a ticket to further education. The great majority of seniors at top colleges-and close to a majority at scores of others-plan to study another one or two years, if not another three or four. June is bustin' out all over with graduate students...
...Dartmouth and Yale games, however, the present system will remain in effect next year, and students will have to file ticket applications in advance. Based on past figures, at tendance at these contests is expected to be especially heavy...
...never even gotten a parking ticket in my whole life." The father still refuses to believe that Billie Sol really did anything wrong: "The Constitution says a man ain't guilty until they prove it, and they ain't proved anything on Billie yet." The family was so poor that Billie Sol's mother sold home-churned butter from door to door to help meet the mortgage and insurance payments. Billie Sol made up his mind early in life that he was going to be rich. While other West Texas farm boys were thinking about shooting crows...
...police department. Both the News-Call Bulletin and the Chronicle blasted departmental indifference ("These citizens want action," shrilled the Chronicle, "not explanations"). The Examiner printed a singularly unjust cartoon of a mugger escaping under the very nose of a motorcycle cop-who was too busy writing a parking ticket to notice. And all three papers printed statistics to prove that since Jan. 1 crime in San Francisco was up 13% over last year...
...took his tuition money and decamped for Germany, where he dabbled in piano and composition and found his "love life crys tallized at 15" ("I made Don Juan and Casanova look like amateurs"). When his money ran out, his mother sent him the price of a ticket home. He gave up composition for painting, painting for newspaper work in New Jersey, finally drifted to WNYC, where "they've regretted it ever since. They can't stand me, but they can't fire me. I'm considered the best salesman of classical music on radio. My chicanery...