Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote? Mrs. Lowrey, a registered Democrat, voted the straight party line. Although she has split her ticket in the past, the demands of her newly acquired celebrity status left her no time to "study the issues." Explained Mrs. Lowrey: "When in doubt, stick to your party...
...stirring up the voters, Nixon seemed to forget that his is a minority party-and the high voter turnout worked against him. In several races, the Administration misgauged the independence of many voters, who picked and chose in an unusual display of ticket-splitting. Observes TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey: "Never has the American voter so totally thumbed his nose at outside interference, money, buncombe, hate and the lofty lamentations of the pious. Particularly in the last ten days, Nixon's campaign was an appeal to narrowness and selfishness and an insult to the American intelligence. He diminished...
From the swirl of contrary trends, ticket-splitting, upsets and dissimilar contests, one result seemed certain: most voters in most places opted for calm, for reasonableness, for a cessation of domestic hostilities. Spiro Agnew, and Nixon in the final days, dispensed bitterness. The current tenor of conservatism was surely there to be exploited, but not by a narrow, harsh approach reminiscent of Nixon in the 1950s...
PENN-COLUMBIA: Unfortunately, this game won't be all it was cracked up to be way back in September. Football aficionados were flocking to the ticket offices then to get seats for what everyone predicted would be a showdown for the Ivy League cellar. Now it appears that only seventh place is at stake since Brown made such an early-season rush for the coveted cellar, emblematic of a school which places scholarship over athletic prowess. Dartmouth, of course, has never finished last. There should be a lot of passing thanks to Poncho Micir, Don Jackson, and all the liquor...
...first thing Shaw did was get out and make sure his guitar was all right," Spengler said. "And then he wanted to split the ticket cost...