Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Every "ticket to a dream" is bought by people unaware that they are paying an unduly heavy price and an unfairly large share of communal needs...
...received a U.S. visa in 1947 and settled in San Francisco. He recalls: "I had no commitments, no obligations, no money−nothing but opportunity." He made the most of it. To put himself through the University of California at Berkeley, he worked as a janitor, a movie ticket taker, a stagehand, a casino shill. After graduation, he enrolled in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. Within five years, he earned three degrees, including a Ph.D. in economics...
...voters' reluctance to make Plains into a family duchy, the biggest issue in the contest was the future of the tiny town (pop. 683). Celebrity has already taken its toll: up to 2,000 tourists pour in daily, overtaxing the toilets, parking illegally in hopes of getting a ticket to save as a souvenir, tearing pages out of the Baptist church's hymnals on Sundays. Claiming that Blanton's air-controller work in Albany, 40 miles away, prevented him from executing his mayoral duties fully, Billy said he ran "because I didn't want...
Goldman and Sacks that's the ticket...
...Secretary of State's job who had no experience in international affairs, who had no experience in international economics, who had never negotiated a major conclusion among states and who had very little acquaintance on their own part with other countries." In a very real sense, Cyrus Vance's ticket to power was Jimmy Carter's perceived weakness and uncertainty in foreign affairs and the American politicians' traditional compulsion to seek some additional legitimacy in the company of men of recognized experience and expertise...