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Word: holidaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon warriors and civil servants, the Army had a holiday message last week: if you want to wish the man at the next desk Merry Christmas, do it personally this year-don't send a card. Reason for the new regulation: the labyrinthine Pentagon's footsore postmen already carry all the mail they can handle. Signing the regulation: Old Foot Soldier Maxwell D. Taylor, Army Chief of Staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Save the Postman | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...film's chief purpose, says Kaye, "is to bring to the attention of the people of the world what UNICEF is doing."* There were no shooting schedules, no rehearsals, no retakes and none of the familiar TV tinsel and dross-but a lot of unfamiliar spontaneity and holiday glow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Good Seed | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...already Butler was artfully detaching himself from Eden. Addressing the Cambridge University Conservative Association, he said: "The Prime Minister is not ill. He has simply had a hell of a time, and it is essential he should have a holiday for a few weeks. He has been submitted probably to more pressure and more attack than almost any statesman in our history." Since Butler is not a man ever to be unwittingly indiscreet, his hearers caught the sly suggestion that Eden's "holiday" at the peak of his troubles indicated that Eden was just not tough enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Tired Man | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...lives, the girl who was never attainable although all circumstances seemed just right for attainment. The supple dialogue is loaded with surprise and revelation; everything that is said has shape and texture and reverberates with hidden meaning. There are self-contained moments of extraordinary power: Aladar's Christmas holiday with his family is a devastating snapshot of what life was for him without Lalla. Most memorable of all, perhaps, is the scene when a cured girl leaves the sanatorium while those left behind crowd the windows to cry over and over: "Don't go away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Unattainable | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...five. Caterina is the youngest of four children, was born in Paris where the family now makes its comfortable home. There, after World War II, Caterina began to exploit her pretty voice, learned the American jazz style from recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday. By 1952, Caterina had married a German juggler named Eric van Aro, now lives in West Germany as a popular recording artist and movie actress. Her singing style has settled into a kind of modified Moorish that can develop into a frightening, savage howl or sink into a sweet whisper. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Singers | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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