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Word: weekender (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower also added appearances in Iowa and Kansas and a weekend stopover in Denver to his own Western campaign tour this month...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dulles Denies China Policy Shift; UAW Workers Settle GM Dispute | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

...Labor Day weekend, a pop lyricist named Charles Grean (The Thing, Sweet Violets) was placidly cruising Long Island Sound in his 26-ft. skiff when he was struck by an inspiration. "With this hoop craze," he thought, "there's bound to be a song. Somebody ought to move fast!" Grean raced ashore and started to move. Next day he took his already completed lyrics around to his pal, Composer Bob Davie, and within an hour the two of them had batted out "a simple little teenage song with a good rock 'n' roll melody," named it Hoopa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hula Balloo | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...Fishers had been good friends (although in retrospect last week, Debbie made a fine point to the effect that perhaps they had not really been "good friends" but only "just friends"). When Eddie and Liz were in New York two weeks ago, consolation continued in nightclubs and during a weekend at Grossinger's. After Liz and Eddie finally returned to the coast, there followed a barrage of press releases -soothing, aggressive, clinical, statesmanlike. Liz went into hiding. Eddie and Debbie had a fight within earshot of newsmen ("What's the matter with you, anyway?" cried she). Everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Just Friends | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...throughout the elimination trials to pick a defender for the America's Cup. Last week she won two of three races from 19-year-old Vim, her final opponent, and the selection committee judged Columbia the gem of the ocean, fit to meet Britain's Sceptre this weekend in the start of the four-out-of-seven series that will be raced alternately over triangular and windward-leeward courses ten miles off Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gem of the Ocean | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Management, while giving no ground on wages, hinted at a willingness to sweeten pensions and supplemental unemployment benefits. Peace talks went on in weekend sessions in an atmosphere both friendly and optimistic. As U.A.W. President Walter Philip Reuther himself sat down with Ford Vice President and Chief Negotiator John Bugas, both sides expressed renewed hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Strike Target | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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