Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last day alive, a day pressured by exams, Hall got a speeding ticket from a traffic cop who recalls him as "very courteous." He conferred normal ly with an English professor, then walked into a grocery store, phoned a girl in Mississippi he barely knew and asked her to marry him. "I am intoxicated with love," Hall said. He began crying and laughing; a policeman was called, and drove him home. Later, Hall spoke wildly to his landlady, Mrs. Aline Johnson, and started kicking the door between their apartments. Shortly be fore midnight, Mrs. Johnson called the police, and three...
...benefit of reporters and TV cameras. "Long before Mr. Meredith was having his diapers changed," he mocked, "I was walking the streets of Harlem on picket lines." Noting that Meredith describes himself as an "independent Democrat," Powell observed that "anybody who is a Democrat running on the Republican ticket has got to be a little tetched in the head." No one was nasty enough to remind Powell that in 1956 he bolted his party to support Dwight Eisenhower...
Without a word to the world, Svetlana received a U.S. visa and an air ticket. Traveling as "S. Allilueva"-her mother's maiden name-she flew on to Rome, accompanied by Embassy Second Secretary Robert Rayle. Then suddenly the story broke, and reporters and photographers turned out in force. Searching for Svetlana, they staked out the U.S. embassy, the airport, Rome's Cavalieri Hilton Hotel and the home of U.S. Ambassador G. Frederick Reinhardt. But Svetlana was nowhere to be found, and Washington, which was be ginning to have second thoughts about the whole affair, was keeping quiet...
...notorious non-writers (even the McNamara incident drew only 25 letters). A famous cartoon in the Bulletin's fiftieth anniversary issue shows seven superimposed editors, each sitting beneath the portrait of his predecessor, and each reading a letter that begins "It strikes me that this year's football ticket situation is the worst in Harvard history." The implication that the old alums who do put pen to paper are sure to be uninspired and predictably stuffy isn't true, according to Bethell...
...beginning of the campaign in September, Mrs. Hicks recognized the vote-getting value or her stand and expanded her refusal to discuss de facto segregation to include a ban on talk of racial imbalance. In November, she led the ticket. This victory re-enforced her feelings on the righteousness of her stand and opened her ears to talk of higher office. Since then Mrs. Hicks has successfully exploited every chance to draw attention to and exacerbate the strife between herself and Boston's Negro community...