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Word: weekending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they arrived in Washington over the weekend, Democrats were still divided on two important points of strategy: 1) Should they make a partisan issue of foreign policy? 2) Should they attack President Eisenhower directly? In both cases the older, cooler heads were still saying no, and the younger, hotter heads were saying yes. Whatever view prevailed (the noes had it last week), there will be a heavy overtone of individual and party politics on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill throughout the second session of the 84th. It is likely to last until the Democrats hurry to Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Nub: Politics | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Starting at 9:15 a.m. in the Columbine III, the President reached Key West in 3½ hours. He was accompanied by his brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, and Mamie Eisenhower would follow them down for New Year's weekend. He got a rousing welcome as he drove from Boca Chica Naval Air Station to the Key West U.S. Navy Base, passing along Roosevelt Boulevard, Truman Street (which sports a Margaret Truman Launderette) and by Eisenhower Drive, which had been known, until the night before his arrival, as North Beach Road. Not three hours afterwards, the President was happily whacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: South to Key West | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...tattered, 30-year-old marriage contract. It is at the bottom of the boss's sunken garden that Tom meets Louise, an exotic fragment of brunette poetry. Over cocktails, it turns out that her beefy husband is Tom's dentist. Tom and Louise lark off for a weekend together and get found out. In one of the more bloodcurdling scenes in recent fiction, the cuckolded dentist, drill in hand, hovers over Tom ready to extract a moment of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Over New Year's weekend the Crimson skiers placed sixth out of eight teams in the pre-season Intercollegiate Meet at Lyndonville, Vt. Pete Churchill took eighth in the jumping with a 105.8-foot average. Hanson Robbins placed 15th, Joe Poindexter and Curt Beebe placed 31st and 32nd respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Enter Slalom, Cross - Country Meets | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

Varsity ski captain Pete Churchill led four other teammates in the Invitation Intercollegiate 4-Event Meet held over New Year's weekend at Lyndonville...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Churchill Leads Varsity Ski Team During Holiday Intercollegiate Meet | 1/5/1956 | See Source »

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