Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least six foreign students will spend Christmas with Boston families this year. Men who are attending the University for the first time this year and have no place to go, other than dormitory rooms, are being taken into Boston homes for a week of the holiday season...
...delivered by airdrop. Next day, at 8 a.m., the big push got rolling. At first, enemy resistance was so negligible that some soldiers who had had no chance for a feast the day before because they were on the move sat down and gorged themselves on the fine holiday meal sent up by the quartermasters...
...Thanksgiving Eve, the staff of Alicia Patterson's scrappy, prosperous (circ. 130,000) Long Island tabloid, Newsday, was well scattered, and the plant at Garden City was shut down. The paper planned to stay closed over the holiday. Then Reporter Bob Hollingsworth, who had stopped in a bar for a drink on his way home, caught a radio news bulletin. There had been a disastrous wreck on the Long Island Rail Road (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Hollingsworth tried frantically to locate Managing Editor Alan Hathway by phone, made four calls before he ran him down having dinner in a Chinese...
Wall Streeters have grown superstitious about holidays, and with good reason. The crash that ended 1946's bull market followed the long Labor Day weekend. The Memorial Day weekend in 1949 brought another shakeout. But last week the stock market exorcised the hex. In a buying surge the day before Thanksgiving, stocks started up, and kept right on going after the holiday...
Hildegarde will interrupt her tour for a holiday stand next month at a Boston hotel. Her verdict to date: "There are no provinces any more...