Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class came again to the editor in the form of an investigating committee, and asked: "O Editor-in-Chief, when will we have the book you promised us?" And the editor looked solemn, and answered: "The book will be distributed before you are gone for the Christmas holiday (the date is most important, Best Beloved...
...ease it is miserable. There is active opposition to Franco's government, and the General is using the imminency of increased U.S. friendship as a talking point to stay in power. When a U.S. Navy task force visited Coruna last summer, Franco parlayed the occasion up to a national holiday. He would probably do the same if we shipped him an ambassador. A U.S. Embassy in Spain would antagonize our Western Europe allies, who strongly dislike the Spanish dictator. And the implied endorsement would cut us out, as it did in China, from the possibility of backing a democratic opposition...
Britain's Ernest Bevin was tired and blue around the gills when he came ashore at Colombo, Ceylon to attend the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers Conference. "I can't stand this climate," said Bevin. "It's like August bank holiday on Hampstead Heath." His hosts arranged to have him carried in a sedan chair with four strong bearers. Said a friend to Bevin: "You are using a means of transportation which your old union* would not approve...
...market. Big Ten would fall off 28 points in the first ten minutes' trading, and not even the million and a half dumped on the market by the Pacific Coast and Southern houses could hold the line. The only way to stop it would be to declare a College Holiday...
...certainly looked like a good proposition. Life on beautiful Cape Sable was one long holiday and here it was being handed to him for eternity-swimming and boating, good food and plenty to drink, handsome, leggy girls and no questions asked. But John Wallis turned it down cold; he ran away from it straight into a private hell of his own choosing...