Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Tactic. For those Governors who had hoped that Sun Valley's blanket of snow might cool off Agnew's language, that was too much. Fumed Oregon's Tom McCall, who had earlier urged President Nixon to consider candidates other than Agnew for the 1972 ticket: "There was the most unbelievable, incredible misunderstanding of the mood of America in that rotten, bigoted little speech." Other Governors labeled it simply "defensive." By the time that Agnew sat down to a closed-door breakfast with 21 of the Governors, as he later put it in an understatement...
...finish post, cease to urge his horse to fight for first, second or third place." Jockeys now fear that they may have to spend as much time in court as on the race track, fending off the suits of disgruntled bettors. Even race-track stodpers, who look for discarded ticket stubs, were heard to complain about the decision. If it holds up, racing fans will hang on to their stubs until the courts decide if losing jockeys, already faulted by track officials, have failed in their duties...
...people don't like the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This has nothing to do with the quality of the music they play, or how they play it. A lot of people don't like the BSO because its ticket prices are high, its concerts are sold out, and it doesn't seem very sympathetic to the music lover without much money in his wallet...
Sheldon Cohen, the owner of the Out-of-Town Ticket Agency, organized the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association last summer, as a response to the rash of trashing and looting that swept through the Square. His group asked the Cambridge City Council to employ more police in the Square, and to try to eliminate street people...
...Dining tickets worth 50 points each would be issued to individual students who would carry the ticket to meals to have it punched...