11.   My appointments for appliance adjustments were scheduled on Fridays, after school, so that weekends often began with dull throbbing pain and lots of aspirin.

12.   My weekend began at dusk on a recent Friday in the West West End, or as New Yorkers still quaintly call it, the theater district.

13.   Our weekend began in Times Square late on a Friday afternoon.

14.   Saturday saw slopes crowded as the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend began.

15.   The futures market in the Midwest that politics-crazed tea-leaf readers love to follow was delightfully confusing as the Labor Day weekend began.

16.   The holiday weekend will begin sunny and warm with comfortable humidity over the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states.

17.   The weekend began with a breakfast in his honor.

18.   The weekend began with a luncheon at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday.

19.   The weekend began with crowds gathered along the banks of the River Liffey on Friday and Saturday nights, watching street performers and straw bonfires lit on the water.

20.   The weekend began with four teams tied, but the New England Patriots lost Sunday.