Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...into the Politburo in less than a decade. Soon after, the dictator turned on his protégé during a purge of Leningrad party officials in 1949-1950. Nikita Khrushchev recalled that Kosygin's life "was hanging by a thread. Kosygin must have drawn a lucky lottery ticket." Again, in late 1952, Kosygin's life was in jeopardy when Stalin demoted him and denounced one of his close colleagues...
...impressed was Richard Schultz Schweiker when Ronald Reagan asked him to be his vice-presidential running mate in 1976 that the Pennsylvania Senator saved and later framed the airline ticket that brought him to California for their momentous meeting. Reagan's attempt to wrest the party's presidential nomination from Gerald Ford by prematurely naming the liberal Schweiker to his ticket failed, of course, but it left an indelible mark on Schweiker. Since then he has grown steadily more conservative. Now Reagan has given Schweiker, 54, a chance to turn philosophy into policy by naming him Secretary...
...drive for hours and see hardly a soul." Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers, who will soon be leaving the U.S. to become senior correspondent in Europe, picked up a memento of the West's vast distances during his many long days reporting the story: a $5 speeding ticket in Montana. The friendly patrolman told him, "If you want to drive fast, just keep $5 on your dashboard. We don't take checks...
...week -sewing men's shirts. Her friends sought jobs in The Netherlands and Spain. "But for me," Sophie recalls, "America was the thing." She was fortunate in having a sponsor: an uncle who ran a bakery in Madison, Ind. He paid for her steerage-class ticket and sent $25, the amount needed to prove to the U.S. that she would not become a public charge...
...recession is partly to blame for tourist troubles in Hawaii, but the primary problem is the high cost of airfares. In the past 18 months, the price of a tourist-class round-trip ticket between Honolulu and San Francisco, some 2,400 miles away, has soared 75%, to $504. The remoteness that had always been Hawaii's allure is now its burden. Laments Edward Sullivan, managing director of the Hyatt