Word: holidayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it owns the mines and runs things, Bolivian labor toils hardly at all. Workers get a 13th month's pay as a holiday bonus, a 14th month's pay as profitsharing, full pay while striking, fixed weekly overtime whether worked or not, a law prohibiting firings and layoffs. Private employers must allocate a sum equal to 60% of their payroll to social security. Said a desperate glass manufacturer: 'I've offered many times to give my plant to the union...
Chance is an English prison doctor on holiday, and he is accustomed to criminals. But in the International Zone of his North African vacation spot he becomes enveloped in evil so dense and tense that it seems part of the town's climate. There is, first of all, Marcovicz, a crippled German Jew whose mind seethes with injustice; he is a psychopath who has killed and is ready soon to kill again. Through him Dr. Chance meets an international crowd of idlers, gangsters, sex deviates and refugees from humanity who are to make his eight-day stay a nightmare...
...Neighbor. Quietly he set about righting some of the wrongs. "Each dollar is a soldier that does your bidding," he once said, and he watched them win or get mowed down. He turned parts of his Hudson Valley estate at Rhinebeck, N.Y. into a model farm, parts into a holiday home for invalid children. He kicked off and often led a house-to-house canvass of tenements built on his land, urged New York police to crack down on lawbreaking landlords. In later years, during Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's social-reform surge, he demolished slum tenements...
With good Marxist resolutions and a holiday cease-fire on the Quemoy "front," Red China last week marked the beginning of a new lunar year-the Year of the Pig. To Chinese, the pig is a symbol of prosperity. Given last year's vaunted "great leap forward" in the Year of the Dog in the production of everything from steel to sesame seeds, and given all their own hard work, mainland China's hard-pressed masses had every reason to expect to be eating higher on the hog. Instead, they are living through some of the hardest times...
Doctor Zhivago has sold more hardcover editions in the United States than any other book since Peyton Place. It was the most popular literary Christmas present of the 1958 holiday season. The proportion of pages read to books bought must be more lopsided than that of the Gideon Bible. And one of the biggest reasons for the disparity is reader fatigue; the busy man must choose between the book itself and the welter of commentary...