Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drinking alone in the office one night when this dame wanders in. Real sweet, she was, with coal dust in her long blonde hair and a crumpled bus ticket in her fist. "Scranton," she sighed by way of explanation, in a voice that trailed off like the Doppler effect of a passing 18-wheeler on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. I poured her a stiff one, and she poured me her story: "I have this terrific manuscript, but please don't ask how I got it, and I just have to get into the newspapers before they do." "They?" "The syndicate...
...shambles because of Walker's incessant feuding with Chicago's Cook County Democratic machine. Yet as Thompson starts his second year as Governor, he is far and away the most popular politician in the state and a reasonable contender for a place on the national ticket...
...changed drastically. Many political scientists fear that Congress may eventually become unmanageable by its leaders. The old constraints of party allegiance and obedience to elders have largely been shaken off. Says Byrd: "When I entered politics 31 years ago, all we talked about was voting the straight party ticket. Now there is a growing spirit of 'doing one's own thing and of resisting the established way of doing things...
Sills' last regular appearances will be in a series of performances of Die Fledermaus at the San Diego Opera in October 1980. Her co-star will be Joan Sutherland, and the two divas will alternate in the roles of Adele and Rosalinda. That should be a sizzling ticket. So should the fund-raising gala Sills hopes to star in later at the New York City Opera-exactly 25 years after her debut there as Rosalinda. Said Sills: "In 1980, I will be 51. I have no operas left that I want to sing. I have sung in every opera...
...after a game that I didn't take booing personally and I didn't want him to take it personally, either. He said, "Wait a minute. I was booing, too. You blew that call. I do take it personally." From then on, he brought his own ticket...