Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents went out that weekend in 1969 and bought a television set so they could watch it. Like the rest of the nation, they were enthralled and enraptured by the prospect of a human being setting foot on the surface of another world...
...jamboree last weekend in Love County, Okla., was merry but with a sober purpose: raising money for the defense of Sheriff Wesley Liddell Jr., 47, and his son-in-law, Marietta policeman Roger Ray Hilton, 27. The two are charged with scheming to kidnap a suspected north Texas drug dealer and torture him with an electric curling iron to elicit information...
...Pledged to ask Congress for a $100 million"enterprise fund" to support Polish entrepreneurs.Moreover, he said he will ask other industrializeddemocracies to undertake similar initiatives atthis weekend's western economic summit meeting inParis...
...revolution has failed." To thousands of homosexuals who marched last weekend in the annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Day parades, the thought may be heretical, but it is exactly the argument put forth by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, two Harvard-trained psychologists, in a provocative new book, After the Ball (Doubleday; $19.95). As Kirk and Madsen point out, the revolution began 20 years ago last week in New York City at a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, when for the first time patrons fought back against police conducting a routine raid...
Bush had initially been silent about an amendment, unsure that a President should meddle in constitutional law. Over the weekend, however, he took the national pulse via talk shows, and on Monday aides said he favored "legislation" to remedy the court's action. After his advisers told him that the Justices would surely strike down a new law, Bush said he wanted to codify his feelings in a constitutional amendment...