Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Half Holiday. Harriman knows how to delegate large chunks of authority to his subordinates, yet worries over misplaced commas. He frequently forgets who is doing what job, yet can still recite from memory the call-down of his class roster at Groton. Gaunt, relaxed and notably stoop-shouldered, he drives himself from 8 a.m. until past midnight, and expects his staff to have the same endurance. Once he assigned an aide a job at 2 a.m. and was on the telephone at 7 a.m. to ask how it was coming. On another occasion, he strode out of his office...
...first race was held on August 3 at 6 p.m., 100 years ago over the two-mile course on the same lake. The Crimson, which entered only one shell, beat the Elis, although Yale had two shells competing. The race was held before a holiday crowd including Franklin Pierce, then a presidential nominee...
Thus, ten years, four months, 21 days after the commander of Patrol Wing Two at Ford Island broadcast: "Air raid, Pearl Harbor! This is no drill," the war between the U.S. and Japan came to an official end. Japan promptly started a nine-day holiday to commemorate 1) the Peace Treaty, 2) Emperor Hirohito's 51st birthday, 3) May Day, 4) Japan's Memorial Day, 5) Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, 6) Children's Day. Headlined Tokyo's Nippon Times: LITTLE SIGNS OF JOY; PEOPLE IN QUANDARY...
This was no holiday weekend for the varsity sailing team, which lost two meets, a dual, 3 to 1, to M.I.T here on Saturday, and the Sharpe Trophy Regatta on Sunday at Providence...
...book is, in actuality, a series of incidents and stories, bound together by the travels of Bemelmans and le Comte de St. Cucuface, first printed in "Holiday" magazine...