Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ketch "Golden Rule" will attempt a second voyage from Honolulu into the Eniwetok testing grounds tomorrow, as a further protest against continuing nuclear tests. This announcement was made Sunday in Washington, D.C., by William R. Huntington '28, who addressed the 200 "Peace Walkers" who gathered in Washington over the weekend...
...delinquents of all kinds who have been triumphantly determined to enjoy what was known until the present crisis as 'the new leisure.' We may lack a few of the refinements of Rome's final decadence, but we do have the two-hour lunch, the three-day weekend and the all-day coffee break. And, if you want to, you can buy for $275 a jeweled pillbox, with a built-in musical alarm that reminds you -but not too harshly-that it's time to take your tranquilizer...
...supply; what was available had been hopefully shipped ahead by camel. But in Peking on the rainy morning of June 10, 1907, one of the roughest car rides since the automobile engine drew its first breath began as casually as a clutch of college boys starting off for a weekend .at Wellesley...
...contest went into a finale that surprised even Burden. At a minute past midnight of Sunday, May u, the value of the prize was to plunge to a piddling $1,000. Suddenly the clues grew tantalizingly specific, zeroed in on a fast-developing Denver suburb in Jefferson County. A weekend mob of some 25,000 people converged on the area, besieged it round the clock. The treasure hunters climbed trees, trampled new lawns, rummaged through garbage cans, shined flashlights into bedrooms, invaded homes to use toilets, even scaled a householder's roof to case his chimney. Moaned one property...
...weekend trip, the pilot will be preconditioned by eating a low-residue diet (no bulky leaf vegetables, peas, corn or beans, no fat). As Captain William Bligh noted 169 years ago after he was cast away by the Bounty mutineers, some of his lifeboat companions went weeks with no bowel movement, had no lasting ill effects. For a trip to the moon, the Air Force thinks it now has an airtight zipper-type fastening for pressure suits that will enable the pilot to function like a duck hunter opening the flap on his long-Johns; the fecal matter will...