Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position that a wage increase would be inflationary. Steelworkers President David J. McDonald renewed his bid for face-to-face meetings with the chief executives of the twelve companies. In deference to the President's request for uninterrupted bargaining, the union and management negotiating teams held their first weekend session, though neither side showed any sign of budging from its position...
...Cathedral, waving, some shouting "We like Ike!" and "Welcome!" In Paris, the crowds were restrained behind the official pomp and glitter, but cries for "Eek" followed him everywhere. The Scots came for miles to cheer him, even though he had slipped into Prestwick Airport only for a weekend's golf and relaxation. As he slowed down at week's end to reflect on the unprecedented tour, reporters could tell that he was richly happy and well pleased with the whole thing...
...Both the Queen and Prince Philip have always been anxious to have more children, and they are very happy about it." said a palace spokesman. Most everybody in Britain apparently felt the same way. When the 33-year-old Queen and her family withdrew for the weekend to bleak Balmoral Castle, Scotland, thousands of curious tourists jammed the neighborhood, and extra police were rushed to Balmoral to fend off rubbernecks...
What else would Orval Faubus do? Few knew the answer. He might well get the legislature (reportedly, to meet this weekend) to pass a sheaf of school-closing acts, simply sign a new one as soon as the old one was thrown out of court. And his backwoods segregationist supporters might yet descend on the city in force when the integrated schools open this week. Said Little Rock's able Police Chief Eugene Smith, canceling all leaves: "We don't know what to expect. But we're going to be ready...
...February, old and worn from his labors, Tomikichi died, and wid01wed Toyono moved with her son into a little house in Hirokawa. Last weekend Toyono slipped away from a small party her son was giving, politely pulled the paper-screen door of her closet shut, and hanged herself with the blue-and-white sash of her Kurume-gasuri kimono...