Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME to get rid of Columbus Day. Celebrating this holiday is like rooting for the cowboys in those old John Ford Westerns--something we all used to do but ought to be ashamed of now that we know some of the real history of the period...
...real story of American colonization and expansion has begun to make its way into school curricula. But somehow we never managed to dump Columbus Day. Maybe Columbus Day has become more an ethnic holiday than anything else, the Italian-Americans' St. Patrick's Day; but a more appropriate date for "Italian-American Day" can (and should) be found, one that commemorates one of the many truly constructive Italian-American contribuitons to the United States. Many people feel that the massacre of the Native Americans is just an ugly blot in our past, and that the current state of "the greatest...
...that orders levies slapped on imports that benefit from subsidies at home and thus theoretically can undersell U.S.-made products. In 1974, shortly before the onset of the Tokyo Round of talks under the 84-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Congress voted a four-year holiday on the imposition of the countervailing duties. The hope was that in the meantime the Tokyo Round would end and the dispute over subsidized exports be resolved...
...Snopeses. If the bride's sister has not been made pregnant by the groom, then the deed was done by one of his 20-odd barracks mates from the military academy. Her uncle is a fundamentalist minister who got the call from God speaking through a Holiday Inn TV set. Her mother spends much of the wedding day arranging to meet an absurdly romantic uncle of the groom's in a motel across from a Dairy Queen in Tallahassee...
That night, back at the hotel, there was still time for them to be girls, so they got decked out and headed down to the Holiday Inn's restaurant and lounge to pass the evening. There was a city-wide curfew in effect because of the strikes, and that provided the perfect excuse to sit and get smashed, which they did. Janey seemed a little sullen; it had not been a good day for hero worshippers. By midnight, the girls were back in their rooms, and it was about 12:30 when a drunken security guard...