Word: weeklong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another woman, 30, rarely drank herself, but when her dipsomaniac husband sobered up after periodic weeklong binges, she became so upset that she went on eating jags, gained 10 Ibs. in two weeks. ''I'd rather he drank." said she simply...
...eager band of sky gazers bent on observing some of the most awesome birds of passage the world has seen. Lured to the Cape by advance tips that some of the promising missiles in the U.S. arsenal would be test-fired, 14 reporters and photographers stood a weeklong telescope watch over the launching sites at the Air Force Missile Test Center...
...Detroit, after a weeklong, citywide newspaper strike, the independent Mailers' Union agreed to go back to work after Teamsters Union Vice President James R. Hoffa flew back from Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to negotiate a settlement. The mailers, locked in a jurisdictional dispute with the I.T.U., had closed all three Detroit papers with support from Hoffa's teamsters...
Music All the Time. In Chicago the fiesta was weeklong. Samuel Cardinal Stritch's Committee for the Spanish Speaking in Chicago was set up to accentuate the positive among the city's Puerto Ricans, block the growth of prejudice and discrimination against a group that numbers only 20,000 now but is expected to swell to 100,000 in ten years...
...Johore Bahru, Malaya, Major General Sir Ibrahim ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar, better known as the Sultan of Johore, began a weeklong, million-dollar party to celebrate his 82nd birthday and 60 years of rule on the throne of the Malay state. During the festivities, his Sultanah, a Rumanian beauty named Marcella Mendl, who is the Sultan's fourth wife, will be crowned. Pounding the floor with his silver saber for emphasis, the Sultan got things going with a surprise statement attacking his own independence-minded government and supporting British imperialism: "Where are your warships, your planes and your...