Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days Ike ran through a jam packed series of appointments dominated by men whose chief concern was the struggle against world Communism. At noontime on the day before Christmas, however, he temporarily abandoned his office with the avowed hope of spending a good, family holiday. That evening, as he helped to decorate the Eisenhower tree and fill his grandchildren's stockings, there seemed no reason why his hope shouldn't come true. But Christmas morning he awoke to the unsettling news that Stalin, through the New York Times, had expressed willingness to meet with...
School Bored. In Hurley, N. Mex., junior-high-school Students Donald Broome and Martha Manners were made joint principals-for-a-day after winning a magazine-sales contest, were swiftly removed from office when their first official act was to proclaim a school holiday...
...Manhattan last week, ballet and modern dance were at holiday boil. The biggest crowds (up to 3,000 a night) wer piling in to see George Balanchine's New York City Ballet, which has found attendance so good that it has extended its "fall season" into January (TIME, Dec. 8). Among the other troupes keeping dance fans hopping were those of Spanish Dancer Jose Greco (flamenco in high heels) and Mexican Dancer José Limón (expressionism in bare feet...
...years ago a group of high-school boys like myself started a campaign: to put Christ back into Christmas. We wanted people to realize that Christmas is important -not because it is a holiday when we send cards and exchange presents-but because it is Christ's birthday . . .We wrote to some of our country's leaders, asking them to help us. These leaders did . . . and the people listened to them...
...seven Crimson varsity squash men won their matches against McGill yesterday, but without the holiday the 6 to 1 score indicates...