Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army has offered to furnish the band with room and board for the October 16 game, in exchange for several concerts over the weekend. If busses can be procured, Borgatti said the band may be able to go to West Point, but the trip is still uncertain...
Chuck roast is our weekend standby. We brown it slowly in an old-fashioned iron Dutch oven or heavy aluminum roaster. Bacon drippings, onions, celery tops, bay leaves, parsley, salt & pepper add flavor. When the meat is browned on both sides I add a little water, cover tightly, and let it barely simmer on top of the stove for about three hours, occasionally adding a little more water. Potatoes, carrots and celery are steamed on top of the roast during the last hour and a half . . . Roast and vegetables [make] a Sunday dinner for at least four people...
Adolf Hitler was still popular in Germany. His face made its first postwar magazine cover appearance on the U.S.-managed picture weekly, Weekend (to boom an article titled Is Hitler Still Alive?). The 20,000 copies allotted to Germans were snapped up like unrationed chocolate (some newsstands were begging for more after 20 minutes), sold out the first...
Although he had long known that he was King's man for the Liberal leadership, he never acted like a candidate. He spent the pre-convention weekend at his Quebec City home with his grandchildren. For three days last week he followed his usual routine in the external affairs office. Even when the convention got underway he spent most of his time seated dutifully on the platform. Occasionally and a little self-consciously, he drifted through the ornate lobby of the Chateau Laurier-the closest Ottawa came to a smoke-filled room-chatting with friends and newsmen...
After looking on, U.S. Commissioner Flemming said he would consider a similar plan for the U.S. He didn't think the U.S. would be able to give candidates a weekend at a country manor, but "I think the idea of keeping the applicant under observation for two or three days, of permitting him to demonstrate his personality and capacity for leadership, is a very practical approach...