Word: ticket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...little over a week before the movie opened, Melissa took the T to Alewife with a sleeping bag, a science book and a bunch of granola bars, planning to sleep on the sidewalk so she could get a ticket for opening day. They were starting sales at 3 p.m. the next day. When she arrived at the theater, she looked around, confused. She didn't understand...
Enter Jason. Ticket holder #2. He got lucky when Melissa offered him an unexpectedly free ticket...
...here I am, secretly agreeing with her, wondering how I got lucky enough to have no one sitting in front of me (someone had a ticket and didn't come?), waiting for the first blast of John Williams' music, thinking that I have to save the ticket stub. Realizing that I am slightly pathetic. Not really caring...
...Gore had been on Bill Clinton's ticket less than a week in July 1992, and was still feeling his way into the campaign and the relationship as the two were winding up their triumphal six-day bus tour in St. Louis, Mo. The best hope they had of defeating a President who had just won a war was to turn the public's attention to what they called the worst domestic economy since Herbert Hoover. But as tens of thousands of people were gathering in the stifling morning heat outside the city library to hear how the Democrats planned...
Christopher, who organized the vice-presidential search, says Gore's expertise on foreign policy was a major reason why he ended up on the ticket. Gore came from the hawkish wing of his party, having broken with most Democrats to vote in favor of the Gulf War. And unlike Clinton, he served in Vietnam. Gore set his fix on world affairs early in his political career, though it was not an obvious area for a junior Congressman elected from the plateau of Middle Tennessee. Even on the environment, Gore's signature issue, the questions that stirred his passions most were...