Word: busman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalist, writing books is very much a busman's holiday. In recent months several TIME staff members have devoted vacations, weekends, evenings and sometimes leaves of absence to completing books...
Seated among the few morning spectators in the London law court was a tall, familiar American figure. As the head of a select group of U.S. jurists observing British justice at work during a two-week Anglo-American exchange program, Chief Justice Warren Burger was on a busman's holiday. On a London street a senior British official was pleased to find Burger sufficiently briefed to congratulate him on a very recent appointment. The official, in turn, offered his congratulations to Burger as just about the only man in Washington who had not lost his job in the past...