one week

• “Exactly one week after the St. George was returned to its wall in the Italian room, reunited with the Alba Madonna, the pipes burst.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Dragon’s Trail

• “I flew to Moscow on June 19, with just one week remaining before Kananaskis to meet with Illarionov and others, trying to convince them that their many objections, such as insisting on taxing grant aid and subjecting our contractors to liability in Russian courts, was going to torpedo the entire effort.”

  Simon & Schuster: Surrender is not an Option

• “We were reunited two Saturdays later, exactly one week after my thirty-fourth birthday.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Book of Miracles

• “The Summer School classes and workshops include a Transcen-Dance seminar, Iridology and the Foundations of Natural Medicine, Advanced Iridology and Natural Medicine, Wildcrafting, Advanced Herbology, and Naturopathy, and one week of Clinical Training during which students observe and practice work with clients.”

  Simon & Schuster: You’re Certifiable

• “Donna and I married one week later in the Kirtland AFB chapel in Albuquerque.”

  Simon & Schuster: Riding Rockets

• “Even so eminent an economist as Irving Fisher of Yale was lulled by the superficial evidences of prosperity into announcing that we were marching along a “permanently high plateau”—a figure of speech given a macabre humor by the fact that stocks fell off the brink of that plateau one week to the day after he made his statement.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Worldly Philosophers

• “The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Richard Myers, recalls, “I realized that one week was not giving Tom and his staff much time to sharpen” the plan.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

• “Speaking of which: Exactly one week before Christmas, I flew to Concord, New Hampshire, on a cold, snowy day and officially filed the papers declaring George a candidate in the Republican New Hampshire primary.”

  Simon & Schuster: Barbara Bush

• “It was so demanding, in fact, that Vincent Pastore, who was perhaps best known for his role as the gangster Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on The Sopranos, had taken himself out of season four after just one week of rehearsal.”

  Simon & Schuster: Zero Regrets

• “Percey wasn't an attractive woman, but that meant nothing; it had taken Sachs all of one week at Chantelle, the modeling agency on Madison Avenue where she'd worked for several years, to understand the fallacy of the beautiful.”

  The Coffin Dancer

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