Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already the new Macmillan government has reduced the annual army re serve call-up by 120,000, disbanded R.A.F. and naval air reserve squadrons of "weekend flyers," and canceled orders for 100 new Hawker Hunter jet fighters (for the nation that pioneered the jet, postwar plane development has been a continuing disappointment: the Hunter is becoming obsolete just as its bugs are being eliminated, and one of Britain's top aircraft designers declared recently that the eight-jet Boeing B-52 is "five years ahead of any bomber we have...
...banked a check she had made out to him for ?1,000 and asked to have it cleared in a hurry. Why had he done this? "We say," said the prosecution, "that it was because Dr. Adams knew quite well that Mrs. Hullett was going to die that weekend." Furthermore, the doctor had requested a post-mortem on his patient even before she died. The postmortem, when it was made, established the fact that Mrs. Hullett died of an overdose of barbiturates, but even though a coroner's inquest called it suicide, the Crown insisted last week that...
...later chatted affectionately by long-distance phone with her daughter. Serene in a handsome mink coat, Ingrid doffed it for TV cameramen, then held tape-recorded interviews in French, Italian, Swedish and German, after which she dashed away to catch a My Fair Lady matinee. Next day the hectic weekend and award festivities were over, and Ingrid, unruffled despite the raucous cries of flacks, newsmen and admirers, boarded a Paris-bound plane. Would she stay longer next time? "The wind blows this way and that," she had said earlier. "I don't know what the future will hold...
...weekend expedition to Greenfield is planned by Brugnoni's group, which has dedicated itself to "the application of Darwinian principles in the man-rabbit relationship." The rabbit season opened recently, Brugnoni added, grinning...
...constantly faces the threat of more. A good geisha today must be able to play not only the ancient mandolin-like samisen and the plaintive flute but an adequate 18 holes of golf as well, in case her patron wishes her to accompany him on a country-club weekend. She should be able to discuss not only the classic poets but also atomic energy, a subject now taught at the geisha academy. Her dancing should be at least as up-to-date as the mambo and the cha-cha-cha. ("Very handy when you're saddled with an obnoxious...