Word: midweekly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work force routinely call in sick on Monday or Friday, using the day as a bridge to prolong the weekend to four days. This year, adept bridgers have been able to take off an extra 20 days with no loss in pay. But next year, with at most two midweek holidays on the fiesta calendar, bridging is doomed...
...apparently of heart or lung problems. Soon similar reports were coming in from other parts of the country. Half a day after getting his flu shot, an elderly Floridian collapsed in a bowling alley and died. In Michigan, three aged people succumbed. Two similar deaths occurred in Tennessee. By midweek, 35 people-most of them elderly-had died after receiving swine-flu shots...
...enthusiastically shaking every profferred hand-and even a mechanic's leg that was dangling from an airplane's cargo hold. Then he boarded a chartered Boeing 727 to begin a weeklong, dawn-to-midnight campaign swing that took him to 14 cities in eleven states. But at midweek, when his speeches began going flat, aides had to insert rest periods in his fatiguing schedule, and Mondale admitted defeat. Said he: "Nobody gets up earlier than Jimmy Carter...
...used to run a fleet of three taxis left to her by her husband. One cab was hijacked and burned out by black youths at the beginning of the Soweto disturbances in June. Last week, fearful of breaking the boycott, she kept her remaining taxis at home. But at midweek a youth, fleeing a Zulu gang, ran through the garden of her home. The enraged Zulus, thinking she had given him refuge, kicked down her front door, smashed her furniture and windows, and then hacked and smashed her two cabs parked outside. "This is the end," she said. "Between...
While not giving satisfaction to the U.S., the North Koreans apparently wanted to prevent the Panmunjom incident from turning into a military confrontation, and even the South Koreans, at first hopeful that the U.S. would take a hard line toward Pyongyang, had by midweek accepted moderation as the only course. Thus about the only concrete result will be a separation of the opposing forces-assuming that the U.S. accepts Pyongyang's demarcation proposal. At week's end, Frudden was holding out for guarantees of safety for U.N.C. personnel before doing so. But both sides also agreed to hold...