Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no air of Christmas holiday in Andau's refugee camp. Men, women and children slept in utter exhaustion on straw pallets. A middle-aged woman awoke with a start, already weeping. She stared around in hysterical terror. Near her, a young man gazed emptily at the ceiling, suddenly leaped from his mat, clutched a filthy rag to his mouth and ran for the door, vomiting as he went. A little girl danced happily around the room, holding a tattered rag doll to her breast, then sat down on the dirty floor and cried soundlessly, helplessly...
...roving through television as vice president in charge of promoting annual, trumped-up presentations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. For the first of this season's versions, televised last week, the VP persuaded CBS and Chrysler's Shower of Stars to turn the durable old holiday cliche into elaborate but dismal humbug...
...Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Hollywood's Holiday Revue...
Since the beginning of this week, Harvard students have been deserting the Cambridge area to begin their Christmas vacation. Almost every mode of transportation going to major cities has been filled with holiday seeking students...
According to Barry L. Berman '57, director of the G and C plan, the last minute change resulted from the New York Central's recent conversion to diesel engines. Unlike previous years, there are not enough extra engines to run special sections every day during the holiday season, Berman said...