Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...round-the-world congressional junketing (TIME, Sept. 12), Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas whirled in bristling counterattack. He demanded that Defense Secretary Johnson furnish him detailed information on all recent trips made by Administration officials in military aircraft. Then he left town for the weekend...
Golfer King, 33, who put out Turnesa, owns a 2,300-acre cattle and dairy ranch near Wichita Falls, Tex., is a deacon in the Baptist church, and describes himself as a "weekend" golfer. He flew his private plane to Rochester expecting to watch more golf than he played. Long before the finals, he was taking bismuth tablets to quiet the butterflies in his stomach. He had never been so close to a major golf title in his life, although he had accomplished the almost incredible feat of winning the Grand American trapshooting championship...
Skating Cinemactress Sonja Henie and Socialite-Aviator Winthrop Gardiner Jr. took off in his brand-new plane for a Long Island weekend, leaving a slipstream of elopement rumors. Headlined New York's Daily News: SONJA...
...wife was a happy get-together of good friends. Evita brought a new portrait down from the second floor to show her guests. Perón gave his friend Don Jaime a hand-tooled Belgian automatic shotgun, just the gift for an ambassador whose favorite Argentine sport has been weekend partridge shooting (in the Gaucho getup given him by Defense Minister Humberto Sosa Molina...
...York Daily News's Montgomery was talking about Mrs. Carlton (Jane) Hadley, the comely, 37-year-old St. Louis widow whom Barkley had managed of late to see most every weekend. But the nation's tabloid readers needed no explanation. Last week they were following the sedate capers of 71-year-old Widower Alben Barkley with the interest usually reserved for limber-loined starlets bound for the Riviera...