Word: furloughing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After serving eleven years, MacEwen was given a three-day furlough. "I visited some places I thought I was familiar with, but they had changed so much that when I got out of my car, I was frightened. I couldn't stay. Then in my mother's house, I was having what I thought was a normal conversation, and it seemed like the room got smaller and smaller and I was suffocating...
...neither the sense of childlike innocence nor the wonder of revisiting a durable fable is lost. Stephanie Mills, wistful and staunch as Dorothy, sings like an angel on furlough. Her companions, the Scarecrow (Hinton Battle), the Cowardly Lion (Ted Ross) and the Tin Woodman (Tiger Haynes) are equally winning and bring complete conviction to their roles...
White-collar employees are finding the current recession particularly unnerving, because companies are no longer as reluctant as they once were to furlough them. Chrysler has laid off 20,000 clerks, accountants and lower-level managers; Sears has let more than 200 executives and middle-management workers go in the past several weeks. Many big corporate employers have quietly frozen new hiring and are trying to whittle their staffs through attrition. At the same tune, employees are less eager to reach for early retirement at a tune of soaring inflation. The Chicago office of the Booz Allen executive recruiting firm...
...Bobby's children, accompanying Ethel Kennedy to commencement exercises. Although Joan looked relaxed, her travail may not be over. Friends think she is cautiously testing herself to see if she is well enough to stay home. One insider said: "I have the impression that this is a furlough; she may have to return to Silver Hill soon...
Karefa-Smart went right to work at the missionary hospital in Rotifunk with the American missionary who had originally inspired him to go on to college. And when she returned to America on furlough, he continued alone. Twelve to fourteen hours a day, he treated the Africans who came to him with every tropical disease imaginable...