Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once outside, Liddy hopped into the driver's seat of his panzer tank. He was distressed to find a parking ticket tucked under the gunmount. At last, he unfolded the paper. It was a blind memorandum, a standard CIA message with no saluation, no signature. The message read...
Your article on Air New England Sept. 24] is a subject close to my heart. The phrase cavalier attitude is one that I have used in reference to the several ticket agents it has been my misfortune to deal with. Indeed, I have seen people so angry that they seemed ready to punch the agent. I have been told by a snotty agent to "take another airline" if I didn't like the way they did things, while I overheard another agent say that she didn't "give a damn" if my bag was on the plane...
...giving their workers the choice of taking their annual raises in a single lump sum as soon as the increases are granted, rather than having them parceled out in paychecks through the year. Employees like this option because it allows them to use their raises to buy big-ticket items like cars, color TVs and refrigerators sooner rather than later, when they may cost more. But some employers fear that the practice of giving lump-sum raises, if it were to spread, might fan inflation by fostering a buy-now philosophy...
EXCEPT FOR THE RAMONES and Soles, there's little to recommend Rock and Roll High School. Most of the jokes are silly, like this one--a fellow in Indian dress walks along the ticket line for the Ramones gig: "A scalper," one fan tells another knowingly. The soundtrack is good--music by Eno and Nick Lowe side by side with Alice Cooper and Todd Rundgren. (If you want to hear live Ramones recordings, though, don't buy this soundtrack album; get a double-album import called It's Alive, four uninterrupted sides of lobotomized thumping...
...stations, as well as to Canada and Mexico. "It's like a political convention," complained one elegant buff. At least the women who had come to be seen in their new dresses and old jewels could parade, not just for the other 4,000 ticket holders, but for an international audience of perhaps 4 million...