Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biting mood of the chief executives of many cities, who are upset with Jimmy Carter for not paying more attention to the problems of urban America. They voiced their complaints in interviews with TIME on the eve of two get-togethers in San Francisco: the first, which ended last weekend, rallied more than 100 top officials from metropolitan areas; the second, which continued this week, was the annual meeting of the National League of Cities, attended by 4,300 municipal officials...
...spending money for such projects, Metro mounted a campaign in the 1950s to clean up Puget Sound and Lake Washington, one of the city's aquatic play grounds. Metro later took over and revived the countywide transportation network, creating a park-ride system to bring in suburbanites, a weekend bus service to ski areas and free fares to the downtown areas...
...corporation's drive built momentum. Christmas Long Weekend expanded into Christmas Week, then Christmas Month. Instead of one jolly old elf, "Santa" came to mean a conglomerate of ambitious, clean-shaven young elves, each with a Masters in Business Administration. Old Santa, realizing that things had gotten out of hand, railed once again against the changes, and filed suit in Hoozie court, claiming that he still held certain key patent rights to aerial reindeer sleighs. But The Santa Corporation retained elves who specialized in festive law, and anyway, elf-scientists working at the corporation's North Pole South Building...
...many lines to get my plane ticket home, I'm set. Strains of "Alvin and the Chipmunks sing the songs of Christmas" will soon be vying with Dad's classical music for stereo time; hte battle looms. I'm not climbing the walls to leave yet; but this weekend, when my roommate and I launch the first annual "Chocolate Chip Cookie Uncooked Dough and Finished Product" munch-out, the official count-down will begin. Unofficially, it's 16 days until Christmas...
...idea that we should all take up skiing. He had picked up the sport, he said, back in college--way back before the down of fiberglass time, when they used wooden skis that just fastened on to your feet with whatever means available--and had enjoyed it. Apparently, the weekend trips to such winter wonderlands as Stowe and Killington were some of the best times he ever had in school. So despite protests from my mother, a traditional Southerner who, true to form, hates cold weather and refused ever to come along, the bi-annual and once-in-a-while...