Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom created the rare "whitestone" days in the life of the visionary mathematician. But he seems to have preferred quantity to quality. In 1877 he records and cites by name and nickname a record haul-35 tamed or half-tamed little girls in the course of one short summer holiday. He also records the most shocking blunder of his life-chastely kissing little "Atty" Owen, a "child" who turned out to be 17. "Mrs. Owen treats the matter quite seriously! She adds, 'We shall take care it does not recur...
Private Schine was given a pass from the end of duty hours on Wednesday until 2300 hours on Thursday, 26th November. (Thanksgiving holiday, no training scheduled...
What did Dictator Mao Tse-tung have to say about all this? The official communique last week said only: "Comrade Mao was away on holiday and so was not present...
...Game. In March 1909, Republican Theodore Roosevelt obeyed his earlier campaign pledge not .to seek a third term, and turned the presidency over to his "lieutenant," William Howard Taft, governor of the Philippines and later Secretary of War under T.R. He went to Africa for a ten-month hunting holiday, on trail of "the noblest game in all the world." Before he got back to civilization at Khartoum, however, he had found time, in the midst of hunting, to reread his favorite author, Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, to acquire a late-in-life appreciation of Shakespeare, and to pass...
Slacker Malgre Lui. Once back home, the ex-President's holiday mood slipped off, as he watched the Republicans, under Taft, grow more cautious and passively conservative. "I was able to hold the Republican Party in power," he wrote, "only because I insisted on a steady advance, and dragged them along with me. Now the advance has been stopped...