Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This weekend, at a church in nearby Littlebury, the vicar will pray: "Oh, God, who has taught us to pray concerning our daily bread, bless, we beseech Thee, Thy servant Richard Austen Butler in his gigantic task for our country this coming week." Two days later, to the traditional cries of "Yah, Yah, Yah!", Rab Butler will step to the clerks' table in the House of Commons, open the old red leather dispatch box once used by Gladstone and lay down the budget which will shape the British economy for the coming year...
...Crimson rugby team, 20 men strong, flies south to Bermuda this weekend, favored to win the island's vacation tournament for the first time in many years. The varsity has a 2-0 record...
...final assault on the record books for the regular season, sophomore Dave Hawkins will lead a delegation of five Crimson swimmers to New Haven for the National Amateur Athletic Union meet at the Yale pool this weekend...
...College Yacht Club will open its season this weekend when it competes against seven other teams in the McMillan Cup Regatta at Annapolis...
After the fuss that you boys made over a letter I sent you some years ago, I swore that I'd never write another word, but this is a situation that raises my hackles. It's all about this All College Weekend. You must think that I'm just a busy body, but all I say is that I wish some other mother had told me a year ago what I know...