Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driven from her home by the Nazis during the War. In the course of her flight to England and later to America, she traveled through many different countries and discovered that singing was a universal means of communication. This she demonstrated very effectively when she sang "Everybody Loves Saturday Night" in English, Africaans, French, Spanish, Russian, and Hebrew...
...road was built on a dike that connected Urk to the mainland, and the 20th century began catching up with Urkers, especially the younger ones. Traditions began to change, especially the pleasant one of "public cuddling," in which young lovers hugged and squeezed each other on Friday and Saturday nights in Urk's 40O-yard-long main street, while around them a circle of shouting and laughing boys and girls teased the lovers ("Afterward," said one traditionalist, "the brides were properly led to the altar...
With the advent of short skirts, high heels and Dutch Teddy boys from the mainland, public cuddling became more basic. On one wild night last winter, 500 youngsters, many of them drunk, rioted on the main street. Pubs thereafter were ordered closed at 10 o'clock on Saturday nights. This ended neither the boozing nor the love-making on the dike. Last week Urk's irked elders cracked down. A new Urk law made it a crime to "trudge, slouch, lounge, saunter, flock together" or "to sit or lie" after dark along public roads. Maximum penalty: a fine...
...fascination of yachting is that there is always more to learn. No one can know it all. I went out just last Saturday and learned more about sail trim than any day I can remember. That's what's so wonderful-new lessons and rewards every time...
...still, hot, muggy Saturday night in New York, the kind of night that drives families out of their apartment houses and homes into the streets and parks, onto their tenement fire escapes, and into their autos for long, aimless cruises along the webwork of the city's highways-the kind of sense-dulling night that makes people hope for something to happen to take their minds off the weather's oppression...