Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next election maybe they wouldn't be sent to the death-house of a loser's headquarters. Newton, Somerville, Southie: The votes mounted, the grins of the King people grew wider and the reporters--most of whom privately expressed dislike for the candidate who had become their meal ticket--chortled at their personal triumphs. Then the procession began...
...small boy hurried through the ticket gate at Harvard Stadium and proceeded to Section 42, Row F, Seats 3 and 4. The man, in his 30s and his best tweed jacket, moved toward the seats instinctively. Why not? This was his 15th straight season in those seats, and likewise it was 15 years since he had sat with his fellow undergraduates, cursing out the season ticket holders and their better accomodations. Now he was drawing the curse. Oh well...
Sports is your ticket to the brass ring of acceptance as a Yardling. You don't have to be athletically inclined--just give the appearance that recreation is your release from the bureaucratic holding penalty that is the Ivy League...
...Republican professor of economics whose pin-striped blue suits and slow, heavily technical speech make him seem the embodiment of fiscal traditionalism. But as a child in Berlin he lived through the insane German inflation of 1923-24. Once his mother gave him 105 billion marks to buy a ticket to a swimming pool that had cost 15 pfennig to enter not long before. But she miscalculated; by the time Wallich got to the pool, the price had risen to 150 billion marks, and he could not get in. Today at 64 Wallich regards inflation as not just an economic...
...tomato red" sticker, which should have a large letter "C" on it for GSAS students, is the ticket for admission to all the University's athletic areas...