Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relieved of his coaching duties effective next Tuesday, Wilson would like nothing better than to go out a winner, and if Harvard's play last weekend on the road was any sign, the Crimson foes could be in for some unexpectedly rough going...
Gurry, a two-time high school All-American at Andover Academy, almost didn't attend Harvard. At first he applied only to Yale and Cornell. Big Red Coach Ned Harkness spent a whole weekend persuading him to come to Ithaca...
...Gaffe. Last week, as the candidates passed the midway point in the New Hampshire primary campaign ending on March 12, Nixon continued campaigning at a stately pace. He delivered two speeches in Wisconsin, scene of the nation's second primary, then returned to the Granite State for several weekend appearances with his wife Pat, Daughters Julie, 19, and Tricia, 21, and Julie's 19-year-old fiancé, David Eisenhower...
...telephone vocabulary of Jacqueline Kennedy's secretarial staff. The new salutation was pressed into service as a result of headlined rumors that Jackie was about to marry Lord Harlech, 49, former ambassador to Washington and Jackie's companion on her recent trip to Cambodia. Come the weekend, lady and lord were 3,000 miles apart, he in London and she on the ski slopes of Quebec's Mont Tremblant with Caroline and young John. The big crowds at Tremblant left Jackie to herself, but Lord Harlech was bugged by transatlantic phone calls from U.S. reporters. "There...
...cranky, querulous old man. To hear him tell it, Gipsy Moth's designer and builders created a rolling, roundheeled bitch, and girdling the globe alone is as bum a trip as anything this side of LSD. Still, the curt, seamanlike account should be required study for any weekend sailor inclined to emulate Sir Francis' accomplishment. As Sir Francis notes at one point: "I had no feeling of romance about the voyage yet but, of course, seasickness is very anti-romantic." By the end of Chapter 10, most readers will be willing to give up singlehanded sailing...