Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a visit to Flushing Meadow and the United Nations General Assembly, Señior Mike went back to his Manhattan hotel for what was supposed to be a restful weekend. Instead, he took his son, Miguel Jr., 14, for a half-hour subway ride, toured Rockefeller Center, lunched with Mayor Bill O'Dwyer at Gracie Mansion. This week he hit the road again, going first to West Point, then to Tennessee and Alabama to look over TVA, then to Kansas City (to visit an experimental farm, get another degree). Then home...
Farmer Barke, like all his neighbors in Martin County, was tired. Over the weekend, the rain had held off. All these days and most of the nights, until the ground fog became too heavy for the headlights, the tractors bad crawled over the fields-Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. At 8 p.m. Monday, the rain had begun again. But by then Barke had 50 acres of oats seeded...
...hundred enthralled but hard-pressed couples, an original musical comedy, and the enthroning of a statuesque, Grecian-type beauty highlighted the Class of 1950's Jubilee Weekend, which banged to a climax under Sam Donchue's baton in the Union Saturday night, and ended with a whimper as ice-packs were applied yesterday morning...
Conventional examinations won't look so-tough this weekend in spite of impending finals and the reams of reading period study which optimistic faculty members have laid out for this week, for four hundred-odd women, many of them the corn-fed, home-bred variety, start a mass descent on the College today...
Union rules, parietal regulations; and local hostelries re buttressed to meet the expected impact of the festive weekend; and Jubilee committeemen, almost (but never quite) buried in their own ballyhoo, are bubbling in anticipation of the opening gong...