Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picked him up every day at his tenement and took him to work. For his labors in De Sica's classic he got $1,000. With it he bought the new dining-room furniture that Giuseppina had always wanted, new clothes for themselves and the children, a family holiday in Florence. After that, he went back to his old job, and the-factory proudly gave him a medal...
Harry Truman's holiday week back home in Missouri had obviously been "a very nice time," as he said afterwards, but he had made it plain that he had brought his work along. He begged off meeting with old cronies, vetoed onetime Partner Eddie Jacobson's scheme to make him an honorary fire chief and give him a red helmet, and skipped a party given in his honor by Kansas City's Truman Democratic Club, thereby generating a certain atmosphere of pique-the boys weren't really angry, but they were disappointed. Most of his days...
...have made no major move to take Austria; they are biding their time. With U.S. aid, Vienna has achieved a fitful glow of prosperity, which includes even the traditional rich blobs of Schlagobers (whipped cream) floating on Vienna's coffee. But what delighted Viennese stomachs most during the holiday season were fat geese and pungent salamis imported from Austria's Eastern European neighbors. The Russians are hoping that, when the U.S. ECAid ends in 1952, need to trade with Communist Eastern Europe will pull Austria inexorably into the Red sphere...
From the Ruins. Viennese have stuck to their love of the city's glorious monuments, and they are slowly rebuilding them. Above all comes the restoration of their Alten Steffel, or Old Steve, whose marble floor many a citizen kissed during holiday services...
...holiday season came to subequatorial South America on the crest of a blistering heat wave. In Santiago, Chileans sipping their traditional cola de mono (monkey's tail-milk, cinnamon, and coffee laced with aguardiente), fanned themselves as the thermometer climbed to 93°. At Viña del Mar and Uruguay's Punta del Este, beaches were jammed. So was the graceful white curve of Rio's Copacabana, where young cariocas, lampooning a recently revived city ordinance against walking to the beach in bathing suits, donned dinner coats or silver-fox jackets over their beachwear...