Word: ticketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonetheless the explicit and longstanding policy of the Ticket Office, for the big games, to see that these seats be "utilized," either by assigning them to students or by selling them to the general public at $6 a throw...
...same I decided to call the Ticket Office. The gentleman to whom I spoke was not only sympathetic but also unusually informative. I learned there are six such blind spots in each of the thirty-seven sections. as well as an undetermined number of seats in the lower bleachers of section 31 on the Harvard side and of the corresponding section on the opponent's side which are wholly or largely blocked by the Team's presence...
...course, were I feeling quixotic. I might simply have asked the policy-makers at the Ticket Office to take those lemons off the market. But I am not feeling quixotic...
...appearance then to suggest that it was any different from the movies being shown next door to it (Hungry Thighs and Sweet Honey) . The posters outside the theater just showed a healthily panting woman, her face partially blocked by a huge "X RATING-NO ONE UNDER IS ADMITTED." The ticket seller was more interested in hustling some of the people from the Hungry Thighs crowd to Vixen than in checking the age of potential viewers...
...essentially designed to keep fares on U.S. liners competitive with Greek, Panamanian and other foreign-flag ships by offsetting the wage differential between U.S. and foreign seamen. The rationale has been that U.S. citizens sailing on American ships help narrow the balance of payments deficit by spending their ticket money with domestic instead of foreign companies. It is doubtful, however, that the balance of payments gains are worth spending so much taxpayers' money in the form of subsidies...