Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your excellent article, "A Clearer Voice?"...How much farther must American jurisprudence travel on a "restricted railroad ticket" before the impact of the tragically fallacious attempt to separate law from morality is fully understood...
...cautious Gabriele never did. A slight, earnest man of 35, Gabriele is a farm foreman at Sant 'Ilario, near Genoa, where he lives quietly with his wife. Last year his chance-taking mother died, at 75. Last month Gabriele, walking in downtown Genoa, passed a vendor selling tickets on the Merano lottery, Italy's oldest and largest. He remembered that it was the first anniversary of his mother's death. For the first time in his life-in memory of his mother-Gabriele bought a ticket...
Along with the ticket Gabriele received a postcard bearing the same number: a free ticket to a tie-in lottery run by a film company. Gabriele wrote his name and address on the postcard and mailed it off to Rome-but without the stamp. A few days later, while he was on holiday at the coastal town of Recco, a pickpocket got Gabriele's wallet, containing some $24 and ticket...
...government was equally firm. On the back of each ticket appears the legend: "Winning ticket must be produced in the original and no equivalent whatsoever will be accepted." Somewhere, if it has not been lost or destroyed, is the $80,000 ticket, in the hands of a thief who does not dare get caught with...
...horses to run in the mile-and-sixteenth Millbrae Handicap, the stewards ordered Calumet Farm's Dixie Lad, whose trainer tried to scratch him, to race in order to keep the betting field at eight. Handicap's winner: Dixie Lad, who paid $31 on a $2 ticket...