Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first warm weather of spring, descending on Berlin at the Easter holidays, gave thousands of Berliners the urge to visit friends or go sightseeing in the opposite sector of their divided city. Trains between east and west operated at twice their usual capacity, and border traffic was unusually heavy. But not everyone was on a holiday jaunt. By last week 5,400 East Germans had taken advantage of the holiday crush to seek refuge in West Berlin. Defecting at the rate of 900 a day, they created the biggest mass rush to the West since the anti-Communist riots...
...spring term will have two fewer class days. Patriots Day will be dropped as a holiday, if state laws permit, and one day will be taken from the spring reading period. In the event that the state demands the observance of Patriots Day, an additional day will be removed from the reading period...
...zeal to serve the majority of undergraduates at the beginning of vacation, Lamont was unnecessarily inconsiderate to those who didn't or couldn't escape. For the intrepid student who was bogged down in overdue papers during the holiday, or the threadbare midwesterner who could not get home, Lamont was a library without books. The inarticulate and the spare of physique, not to mention those who enjoy food, were decidedly the losers after the lunch-hour battle at Desk One's bargain basement on Friday...
...Nehru in the midst of the Hindu spring festival of Holi, grinned in the standard circuit-riding Russian impersonation of a fine fellow as India's Premier smeared his forehead and Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov's face with vermilion in traditional observance of India's lighthearted Holiday. Then, with his 50 experts, Russia's No. 1 missionary of trade got right down to business...
Divorced. Hal Peary, 46, jowly radio comic and the original giggling star of The Great Gilder sleeve; by Gloria Holiday, 29, onetime radio and TV performer; after ten years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...