Word: outing
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Some of the smaller, more specialized, activities, such as the Outing Club, the Ski Club, the Mountaineering Club, and the Yacht Club had bumpy going during the dark ages, but all of them are currently being revived by the influx of returning veteran members. The Debate Council never missed the Yale and Princeton triangular debates, and awarded the Coolidge prize throughout hostilities...
...boat race, it's dying out, that's wot it is. ... Trouble is everyone goes for football matches 'n dog racing wot they can 'ave a bit of a bet on." Actually the crowds were as big as ever, and grateful for the outing, but some of the old drink-it-up spirit was gone. People generally stayed as sober as their austerity clothes...
Back from Missouri, Harry Truman was soon aboard the Presidential yacht Williamsburg for a four-day cruise down the Potomac and in Chesapeake Bay. This was not the poker-and piano-playing sort of outing the President likes. The President was hard at work...
...sundown most of the picnickers began to straggle back to the mainland (the clubhouse has overnight accommodations for only about 20). All proclaimed the outing a great success. Said one good Democrat: "It was a good party. There was all we could eat, and more than we could drink-and only two people passed...
...dark the fun broke up. The President was buttonholed by newsmen at the White House back door. He had one newsmaking thing to say: he alone would make the decision about the atomic bomb secret (see INTERNATIONAL). Had the President done himself some good with Congressmen at the outing? Said one Senator, who frequently bucks the Administration: "Harry Truman plays a damn good game of poker...