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  • Is it too much to demand, for example, of the thousands of French students who are going to march again this week behind banderoles that read "My grandpa has taken my job" to plan as well on banderoles with the figure of a little bus ticket-taker who is their age, who could be their brother, and whose sole crime is that of having defended his mama?

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: After Sakineh, Her Son Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • Is it too much to demand, for example, of the thousands of French students who are going to march again this week behind banderoles that read "My grandpa has taken my job" to plan as well on banderoles with the figure of a little bus ticket-taker who is their age, who could be their brother, and whose sole crime is that of having defended his mama?

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: After Sakineh, Her Son Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • That day, the young ticket-taker on the buses of Tabriz who courageously defended his mother, incessantly pleading her cause before global public opinion, was in the middle of what may well prove his last interview, with a German magazine, when he was brutally reduced to silence -- and hardly anyone seems to care.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Sakineh's Son Arrested: The Great Silence of Conformist Thinkers Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • "I tried playing trumpet in my high-school marching band but I was soon demoted to ticket-taker at football games," he said.

    New Jersey Jazz Revolution Marc Myers 2012

  • The ticket-taker at the Panthéon did not scream at me when I asked where Émile Zola was buried.

    French Twist: Meet Monsieur Nice Guy Joe Queenan 2011

  • Is it too much to demand, for example, of the thousands of French students who are going to march again this week behind banderoles that read "My grandpa has taken my job" to plan as well on banderoles with the figure of a little bus ticket-taker who is their age, who could be their brother, and whose sole crime is that of having defended his mama?

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: After Sakineh, Her Son Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • "The liver can only break down the alcohol at the rate of about one drink per hour," says Dr. Zakhari, who likens it to how fast a ticket-taker can let concert-goers through a gate.

    Testing the Limits of Tipsy Melinda Beck 2011

  • One English stereotype I remember was embodied in the diffident ticket-taker on an open double-decker bus in London when London still had those.

    "Thick as mince and a clatty bastit" Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • The player antedated the ticket-taker, the amateur antedated the professional.

    For the Love of the Game 2007

  • The player antedated the ticket-taker, the amateur antedated the professional.

    For the Love of the Game 2007

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