Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then the hype was on. One day a year of Christmas was not enough for the growth-minded executives in the upper echelons of The Santa Corporation. As Amalgamated Widget, they had used the company's formidable promotional muscle to expand July Fourth Weekend into July Fourth Week in order to boost the firm's Patriotism and Pyrotechnics Division. As The Santa Corporation, they now began taking out five-minute television spots and full-age ads in major daily newspapers to, as their ad men put it, "make that Christmas spirit last and last and last...
...Santa Claus and many religious leaders objected at first when Christmas Day became Christmas Long Weekend, but The Santa Corporation created Claus Reindeer Raceway to mollify the jolly golden-age elf, and the company paid spiritual operatives to develop splinter sects for Christmas Reformists...
Prime Minister Mamhoud Salem, who announced the decision to the Egyptian parliament, said the countries had tried to stir up opposition to Sadat's peace initiatives by helping to arrange last weekend's summit of Arab states who have taken a firm line against recognition of Israel...
...parents were in the Boston area for a weekend three weeks later. The first evening. I told my mother I was gay; when my father joined us the next day, I told him. I loved my parents, and I felt that I should tell them first of all straight people--if for no other reason, because I did not want them to hear it from someone else. I had not expected it to be easy, and I was right...
...poll Megan Lesser '78, Leverett House CHUL representative, conducted this weekend shows that 145 of the 270 Leverett residents who responded to the poll favor returning the surplus funds to students...