Word: payday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...command expected on Sunday morning the American fleet would be crippled for fighting by the drinking of Saturday. In fact, the Saturday night before the attack, we, aviators, also expected through the Honolulu radio that there would be very much drinking among American seamen and soldiers. It might be payday and the drink-shops would be running full steam. We heard jazz from the Honolulu radio through the night. We smiled because we knew very well for the result . . . There would be oversleeping and unpreparedness...
...heavy rains, but still a luxury), and their meals-which included large quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables, eggs and ice cream-were elegantly laid out on tables fashioned from packing cases. They played baseball and basketball, swam in the rivers, flocked at night to movies, risked their payday money in poker and crap games. Stones glistening with new whitewash lined driveways at command posts which no longer had to be moved every few days...
Radcliffe Payday drained a total of $7.664 from undergraduate wallets in a weeklong campaign which extended from last Tuesday morning through yesterday afternoon...
Every club listed on the Payday envelope maintained the minimum paid membership of 20, Student Council night. The 36 girls who have not yet paid their dues will find an extra 50 cent fee tacked on this week...
...Payday, pleasant sounding but ominous in implication, begins today at Radcliffe. Pockets must be turned out to the minimum extent of $5.50 for freshmen and sophomores and $6.00 for juniors and seniors...