Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largest public employees union (750,000 members), cheering on a lanky player on the court. But when unlucky Pierre swung his curved basket at the speeding white jai alai ball and missed, Wurf, who had not won a bet all night, resignedly tore up his losing $2 ticket. "If we don't win the next one," he told a companion, "I want to go home...
Affronted, Brock purloins a ticket to heaven instead. But paradise makes him uncomfortable, despite the music (Fauré's Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth), the soaring entrance hall and the "little mayonnaise concoctions" served by white-robed nuns. Brock gladly boards a plane for his assigned place in hell and his fate: to fornicate forever...
...thing, there should be little doubt that Harvard will not conclude its season on Saturday. It just doesn't work like that. Somebody is bound to lose, and to prove it, I'll put up a one-way ticket to Troy, N.Y. against whatever you're doing on Tuesday night. That's right, if Harvard misses the playoffs, you go to Troy and I'll, well...see you around History 1422, bloke. ECAC DIVISION I HOCKEY STANDINGS W L T 1) Clarkson 18 4 0 2) New Hampshire 21 5 0 3) Boston University 16 6 1 4) Cornell...
...pick up that loss from auxiliary moneys. That really puts the pressure on you." Echoes Stanford President Richard Lyman: "Those pressures are not going to diminish. Athletics costs are mounting faster than the cost of living, and most universities feel that they've exhausted such remedies as raising ticket prices dramatically...
Acosta convinced the Harvard athletic department, the folks who bring you the ticket coupon books, to sponsor him, although Harvard has no team or club...