Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the team received the Orange Bowl bid shortly after beating Iowa, the directors of athletic policy and the officers of overall administration met to consider the fact that the squad members would be deprived of the holiday trip to their respective homes. This exploitation was remedied when the University volunteered to pay airplane expenses to and from the homes of varsity and freshman players...
...death of his mother is a matter of simple grief. For his father, Alec Rice, the death has another aspect: he feels inner relief at being free of a "dictator who rarely raised her voice and never threw a saucepan." Alec chucks his truck driving, drifts off on a holiday after shipping Philip to his Uncle Adrian, a baker in Wales...
...making a practice of sniping at citizens from no one knew where. The winter exercising and drinking season was beginning, with skiers heading for New Hampshire, Sun Valley and Yosemite, the bathing suit and dark glasses set for Florida and Palm Springs. Variety reported that the stress of holiday sentimentality had pushed Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to first place on the list of bestselling sheet music; The Thing had slipped to eighth...
Leathery, poker-faced U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk, Admiral, U.S.N. (ret.), came home for a holiday visit from his Moscow post, where he had found himself a mariner becalmed in the eye of a hurricane. He slipped in quietly to see Harry Truman, reportedly told the President he could detect "absolutely no evidence" that Russia is about to start...
...time for holiday reading, Good Housekeeping proudly presented the opening chapters of Francis Cardinal Spellman's first novel, The Foundling, the story of a baby found in a Roman Catholic cathedral by a Protestant veteran of World War I. The cardinal, author of half-a-dozen books, announced that he had turned over his rights to the Roman Catholic New York Foundling Hospital...