Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picket line of around 50 young people carry posters reading "Abolish' the Un-American Activities Committee" formed across the street at the beginning of the but, as one harassed YAF official put it. "It isn't the pickets who are giving it's the ticket holders...
...Harvard Athletic Association's ticket office has ever been an organization devoted to hiding its light under a bushel. Its activities are shrouded in discreet anonymity, and a sense of bureaucratic modesty prevents the office even from announcing how tickets are to be distributed for any coming athletic event. Seemly as all this secrecy is, it is also a little irritating to the undergraduates the agency serves. Many, for example, would appreciate knowing beforehand how many, college tickets are available for the next game or meet. And it would also be of interest to know how the number of alumni...
James G. Leaf '63, who spent three hours waiting without getting a ticket, commented that "sheer weight and size were the only qualifications needed for a ticket...
...hardiest swim enthusiasts got in line before 7 a.m., but most students joined the crowd at about 8:30, and stood patiently for over an hour while a single ticket window waited on one customer per minute. Average progress in the line was about 75 feet during the first hour, though one sophomore boasted of advancing...
...Ticket Manager Lunden apparently felt little sympathy for the students, though many gave up valuable class time in the effort to secure seats. "We did not ask them to come around," he remarked...