Word: three-day
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...sporting activities have usually been confined to a day at the races or fishing in Scottish streams, but the Queen Mother, 83, can handle a cue when the occasion calls for it. While on a three-day tour of the Channel Islands, she popped into a young people's center in Jersey. There she was cheekily challenged to a game of pool by Karl Megaw, 17. The regal reply: "Certainly." As she lined up the shot, she murmured, "Wouldn't it be awful if I missed?," then proceeded to render the question academic as she slammed the ball...
Recognizing her skills as well as her birthday, her home state of Mississippi declared a Eudora Welty Day. In Jackson, the capital and her home town, Millsaps College tossed a three-day "Southern literary festival" honoring the occasion. The affair drew pipe-smoking academics, fellow successful novelists and short-story writers, worshipful young writers-to-be, men who have had intimate relationships with plows, veiny-handed country women, root pullers-friends...
...philandering, drug-taking, crony-swindling rat of a ulm director comes back to Brooklyn for the funeral of his unbeloved mother and sets out on a three-day debauch that ends in the psychosomatic equivalent of a heart attack. That is not, perhaps, the stuff of box-office comedy, and, as a portrait of Hollywood, it seems less satire than neorealism. Yet by the final fadeout, Josh Greenfeld's novel turns out to be both uproariously funny and bitter as wormwood...
After a vigorous three-day firefight, the attackers succeeded in overrunning about 120 Sandinista defenders entrenched amid San Juan del Norte's thatched adobe huts. A.R.D.E. commanders said that mysterious nocturnal support from offshore played a role both before and during the victory...
Both sides, however, have been putting that bitterness behind them and continued to do so during last week's talks. The key agreement of the three-day session was a tax treaty, to be signed during the President's visit, which encourages U.S. firms to participate in joint ventures in China. The terms call for elimination of double taxation on the American companies. Said Finance Minister Wang Bingqian, who initialed the agreement: "I am confident that we can push forward the economic and technical cooperation between the two sides...