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Word: holidayers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the sound of happy mastication. Everytime a dog finishes, it is rewarded with an extra packet of Gainesburger. the grandfather sighs happily and offers us each an orange. We sit and watch the dogs eat. The grandfather switches to Chico and the Man, then to William Conrad singing holiday songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barkers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...share, is 18. None, except the two grandchildren, have come home for Thanksgiving, although they phone often and return on weekends regularly. Each time one child left the house, he replaced it with a dog or two. He doesn't mind his granddaughter coming home for the holiday, he tells us, but he doesn't understand why she insists on bringing home bums who he cares nothing about. We blush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barkers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...present to her mother at home) and the leotard was all she had left to wear. And it wasn't that she had packed so many books in her suitcase that there was no room left to pack any clothes, nor because the people she spent the holiday with were also in leotards, or some variation thereof, and she wanted to stay in style...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Turkey at The Union; The Show Must Go On | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...Union staff will prepare celery hearts, radish roses, three kinds of pie and a cornucopia display to add a special holiday touch to the meal, Wood added. Vegetarians may request tuna, or cheese, he added. Wood said he expects about 600 people for dinner tomorrow afternoon...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Students Will Gobble Bird In Thanksgiving Day Rite | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

...merciful exchange of a lamb for Abraham's intended sacrifice of his son. The meat is then distributed to the poor, the needy relations, and neighbors, leaving one-third for the family. Children eagerly put on their new clothes and collect a bonus allowance to spend during the feast holiday. Families exchange visits and greetings all day long...

Author: By Sanaa Makhlouf, | Title: A Voyage Devotion | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

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