Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holy Thursday, Major John Eisenhower and his family planed in from Fort Benning to complete the family circle, and Ike mixed his special half-holiday formula of work and play: a few hours of official business each morning and a daily round of golf, larded with interludes of play with the grandchildren and a rubber or two of bridge each evening...
...exhaustive CRIMSON study led to the startling revelation that the holiday is in honor of the beginning of the American Revolution. In honor of this discovery there will be no Crime this Monday...
Sentimental, fiesta-loving Barcelonians declared a holiday and thronged by the thousands to the waterfront one afternoon last week to welcome home a shipload of all but forgotten men: the last survivors of the ill-fated and ill-famed Blue Division that Franco sent off in 1941 to fight in Hitler's Wehrmacht on the Russian front. Captured by the Russians, the Spanish legionnaires had spent some ten years in Soviet forced-labor camps, were released and sent home as another installment in the Communist peace offensive...
...Best actress: Audrey Hepburn, for her wistful princess in Roman Holiday...
...three year period of concentration, an undergraduate in the English department can get a comprehensive, if disjointed, picture of English Literature. By carefully mapping his program, allowing for courses that skip a year of two between meetings, and hoping that no professor decides to take a three year holiday, the English concentrator can study from Beowulf to the present. But he can take no course that will give him a more rapid, unified and consecutive view of England's literary history...