Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hannover, Heidelberg and Hamm, German mothers wrapped the last of huge piles of Butterbrote in waxed paper as their cantankerous and impatient offspring squabbled over who was to sit where in the family Volkswagen. Dutchmen and Danes by the thousands were leaving their lowland homes for a brief, refreshing holiday in Germany's nearby mountains. Mountain-bred Swiss were flocking to the gently rolling hill country of Lake Constance. Once again, the great seasonal migration was on, and all over Europe indefatigable optimists were crossing and crisscrossing each other's paths in a brief, determined effort to sniff...
...churches, which undertake to sign up members of the congregation at $1 a year (v. $2 for individual mail subscribers), thus can sell advertising space (1956 ad revenue: $402,000) on the basis of audited circulation. The magazine is put out by a ten-man lay staff under onetime Holiday Staffer Robert J. Cadigan, aims at general family readership with sharp picture layouts and easy-to-take text pieces...
Unable to have his way, Gaillard offered his resignation to President Coty, who had to put off his own holiday departure for the French Alps. For the final session at Bourgès-Maunoury's house in suburban Saint Germain, ex-Premier Guy Mollet was brought in to swing his Socialists into line. Then the Premier announced to the waiting reporters that 550 billion francs had been whacked off the estimates; over the weekend technicians would try to slice off the remaining 50 billion to satisfy Gaillard. The youngest Finance Minister promised to make his resignation "conditional," i.e., staying...
...sizzling streets of Cairo and Alexandria were charged with happiness and excitement as 23 million Egyptians took a long holiday last week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Nasser's revolution, the first anniversary of the seizure of the Suez Canal. On a hundred triumphal arches banners proclaimed: "Egypt, Tomb of Aggressors." "Nasser, Hero of Peace." From radios and loudspeakers all over the great (pop. 2,100,506) city of Cairo, the Big Brotherly voice of Nasser could be heard everywhere...
West Coast audiences and critics who have been listening to 22-year-old Pat Suzuki for the last two years like to argue whether she has the style of Billie Holiday, Jeri Southern, Judy Garland or Ethel Merman. The truth is that she sounds occasional echoes of all of them. But she also has a dead-sure sense of phrasing all her own and a warm-tinted, open voice which casts its own mellow glow over the familiar lyrics she handles...