Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course none of the above office-holders promoted himself as a person with a measure of black genes. This brings us to the second aspect of our historical context: the self-proclaimed black Americans who have been put forth for one of the top two spots on the ticket. This is where people invoke the name of Julian Bond, who had already run up a number of votes for Vice-President at the 1968 Democratic convention when he took the microphone to remove his name on the grounds that, at age 28, he failed to meet the Constitutional requirement...
...election of 1904 saw the first Negro run for President. This was George Edwin Taylor of Iowa, a one-time editor of several newspapers. A former delegate to both Republican and Democratic conventions, he became disillusioned with the major parties and was chosen to head the ticket of the newly established National Liberal Party, which revived many of the principles of the defunct Whigs...
...winter afternoon, and Joe Downhill is 73rd in line for the chair lift. He shuffles his $200 fiber glass skis and $90 foam-injected Rieker boots, pokes forward a few inches with his $35 aluminum poles, and shivers in his $95 quilted parka, while his $10 all-day lift ticket flutters in the chill breeze and his stomach rumbles from that rotten $2.50 lunchtime ratburger...
...space of a day, but a day is not a day in Disneyland, since time stops. And Disneyland also gives expression to Mircea Eliade's concept of illo tempore, a timeless realm in which the primary acts of reality are acted out continuously. And finally, the five dollar ticket entitles the decent citizen to enter the realms of American Jungian archetypes--the Mark Twain, Mainstreet USA, Tomorrowland, Pluto, Goofy, Abraham Lincoln--all implanted in the unconscious of all the wonderful public willing to pay to see that archetype over there...
...armed column of raiders up from the South to attack police barracks in Ulster, which landed him in Dublin's Bridewell Prison on his return. While still in jail, he was elected to the Irish Dáil (House of Representatives) on the Sinn Fein ticket, but he did not serve. During the late 1960s, he was one of those who opposed the growing Marxist influence in the movement ("The Communists would have stolen the movement's suit, its clothes, its name") and helped form the breakaway Provisional wing. British policy, he says firmly today, only intensifies Irish...