Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three matches that the golfers will play during the week-long holiday will not prove much except that the team needs practice. Late winter snows, cold weather, and soggy ground have kept its members from the fairways for the most part thus far this year, and as a result their opponents from the land of sunshine will have a decided edge...
...time limit for entertaining girls in the rooms has been extended from 10 p.m. until 12 midnight with a 1 a.m. curfew on Saturdays and holiday eves. New rules allow men merely to sign on dormitory lists when they have women guests; is the past written permission from a proctor was ceded...
RUSSIA Delusion on Sunday Comrades, these are not merely elections-this is also a holiday...
...holiday spirit, Russia was preparing for its quadrennial national elections next Sunday. Factory workers were spurred on to back-breaking Stakhanovite feats, the customary holiday offering. Thousands of agitators swarmed out from thousands of agit points to address rallies as if there were actually issues that could be decided by the voters...
Krokodil, a humor magazine, did not seem to think it was being funny. Neither did the Russian people who, never having known anything better, believe that the show that they will enact next Sunday is really an election as well as a holiday...