Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American World Airways' Captain Charles Blair, on a busman's holiday one day last winter, streaked across the Atlantic at 450 m.p.h. in his own war-surplus FSI Mustang, and broke the nonstop New York-to-London record by an hour and seven minutes. Ever since, back on the job as boss pilot of a transatlantic Stratocruiser, he worked over plans for an interesting way to get his maroon Excaliber III back home...
...Argentine government made a cagily indirect answer last week to reports that Juan Perón had arrested Ronald Richter, his "atomic scientist" (TIME, May 28). Newspapers announced that Professor Richter and his laboratory associates would observe a national holiday by working 24 hours straight...
...strike for the second week, demanding a $410 cost-of-living salary boost. With their classrooms technically open (in order to qualify for state financial aid), some students were dutifully checking in at the usual time in the morning, milling around for a bit, and then resuming their unexpected holiday...
...Director Frank Tuttle (College Holiday), a lean, greying oldtimer, who came all the way from Vienna, where he has plied his trade since 1949. Tuttle was only too happy to unburden his conscience. He had been a Communist, all right, from 1937 till 1947-when the C.P. line got to sounding too violent for his taste. Witness Tuttle ticked off a long list of his ex-party comrades, most of whom had been brought to the committee's attention by earlier witnesses. "There is a traditional dislike among Americans for informers," he admitted. But, said Tuttle, "a ruthless aggression...
...Ormsby turned slowly on the bed, careful to keep the coil springs quiet, and as he lowered his feet he reached for his socks on the floor. They were gone. Well, he should have known that. They were gone Sunday mornings and all National holidays. This was not a National holiday, but it was a great day for Mother, and time for him, anyhow, to change his socks...