Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as the President announced Connally's appointment, politicians and columnists theorized that Nixon might dump Spiro Agnew from the 1972 G.O.P. ticket and name Connally in his place. A relatively conservative Texan, presumably Connally would not offend Agnew's followers. If the Republicans won, then Connally conceivably might find himself in 1976, at a presidentially mature 59, heading the G.O.P. national ticket. The idea is farfetched, although Connally may have indulged it in the privacy behind his hard, savvy...
...with his father. He disliked the orphanage, partly because of the harsh treatment and partly because of an air strike by U.S. planes that were trying to bomb a Viet Cong stronghold. Finally Son ran away and collected enough money by begging to buy a bus ticket to Saigon...
...French grammar and the stylistic nuances of Rousseau, Racine and De Gaulle in the 1,200 language centers it maintains around the world. It is supported partly by the government, partly by ordinary citizens who respond to leaflets pointing out that "for 10 francs-the price of a cinema ticket-ten Chilean children can be given an hour's French lesson." Some of the Alliance's more illustrious alumni are Teddy Kennedy, Pope Paul VI and Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato...
...took passengers on a ten-minute ride over a newly paved macadam road to the Caravan Hotel, Sharm el Sheikh's year-old 350-bed caravansary. Before we started, the bus driver turned to a young man. "Nu, buddy," he said, "where are you going without a ticket?" The man paid the 40-cent fare and said, "Take me downtown." At that the driver smiled. "Downtown? This isn't Tel Aviv-yet." Certainly not, judging from a first look at the treeless landscape, flat stretches of fine reddish gravel, and cone-shaped peaks of the bleak Sinai range...
...newest hot ticket on Broadway these days?$55 a pair from scalpers ?is an admission to a haunted house. Elegiac strains of the '20s, '30s and '40s hover in the wings. Ectoplasmic chorines, all beads and feather boas, wander across the stage like Ziegfeld girls come back to life. Characters are at once 19 and 49. Time bounces off the walls, like sound and light brilliantly altered and distorted...