Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Someone in your family plays a musical instrument (the odds are it's the piano, but it could be the violin, clarinet or saxophone). You entertain eleven guests a week for dinner, lunch, bridge or the weekend, and you figure it costs you nearly a thousand dollars a year...
...completing it quickly and painlessly was to take refuge in the expected Southern filibuster on civil rights. While the House made ready for a three-day weekend, Acting Senate Majority
Congress knew just about what to expect from the President. He had worked all week on his message, brushing up its language during a weekend cruise on the Potomac. The speech would go back over most of the same ground he had already covered at Philadelphia (TIME, July 26): federal aid to education, an increased minimum wage, a civil-rights program. Two added starters: approval of the international wheat agreement and the $65 million loan to build U.N.'s permanent headquarters...
...same week Joseph Stance, health inspector of Glen Cove, L.I., was sure that what he smelled was no hallucination. More like an overworked cesspool, thought Stanco. He followed his nose to the old Maxwell estate at Glen Cove, now leased as a weekend recreation spot for Russian U.N. staffers. Stanco said that he could see a pump working on the cesspool but he could not pursue his investigation further because the Russians would not let him inside the house. "You have your laws," said a courteous comrade, "and we have ours. Your American laws do not concern...
...Over the weekend, 60 B-29s landed in Britain (see cut) and 1,200 U.S. airmen stepped out of them...