Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National I Like Ludwig Club began only four weeks ago when two Yale-men, Edmund Leites, 17, of Manhattan, and Howard Richards, 18, of Redlands, Calif., became alarmed at the number of "I Like Elvis" buttons they saw while in Manhattan on holiday. The boys went into a huddle with one of Leites' former classmates at the New York High School of Music and Art, decided to start a counterrevolution in the musical taste of U.S. teenagers. Leites scraped together $45, got i.ooo "I Like Ludwig" buttons made up within two days. At first the boys thought their little...
...Medium-Price Class. Oldsmobile 88 Holiday, 19.5149 m.p.g., 52.7877 t.m.p.g.; Pontiac Chieftain, 20.4221 m.p.g., 50.2384 t.m.p.g.; Studebaker President' 19.9453 m.p.g., 44.8769 t.m.p.g...
...town and do some thinking," Dwight Eisenhower sometimes advises his top aides. "You just don't have time to think in Washington." While lolling aboard the missile cruiser Canberra during his six-day holiday from Washington, the President found time to think through to a basic decision: in view of the national outcry for economies in the Federal Government, he must make a direct and vigorous defense of his budget...
Looking bearishly cherubic in his fur-collared greatcoat, Sir Winston Churchill, 82, slowly debarked from a plane at London Airport after a two-month holiday on the French Riviera. His mind decades younger than his body, Sir Winston had busied himself at his easel and a writing desk, where he was completing his History of the English-Speaking Peoples...
...primer on the new tongue in the current Holiday, Fadiman classifies the M.C.s of the top quiz and interview shows as the Noah Websters and Fowlers of the age. Writes he: "They employ certain mandatory words and phrases, now becoming part of our general vocabulary: but seriously to indicate that what follows is to be duller than what has preceded; definitely for yes; great or wunnerful to express mild approval, or often merely to show that the M.C. has heard and noted a statement by the interviewee; he's so right; I've got news for yuh; that...