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Word: holidaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having been to Morocco last summer, I would hardly label it a holiday haven [Jan, 31]. It could be more aptly termed an adventure in adversity. The oppressive heat, omnipresent filth, and the questionable quality of the food are some of the obstacles that confront the tourist in a rigid test of endurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...years later, when his daily practice routine had risen from two hours to seven, he sometimes wished that he had smashed the piano too. "Other kids got up in the morning, ate, went off to play," he recalls. "For me, it was slavery. I never had a holiday until I was 22 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: Rebel in Velvet | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...people these days. For restless jet-age pleasure seekers, Morocco has become one of the newest and chicest holiday havens. Tourism was all but nonexistent ten years ago; today it is Morocco's second biggest (after agriculture) and fastest growing industry. During 1969, 650,000 foreign tourists, 50,000 of them Americans, are expected to visit what Moroccans call the "Fortunate Kingdom." Many will come in the summer, when the sun is fiercer. But the big boom is now, in winter. These days, only the lucky find hotel rooms ("We just had to turn Charlie Chaplin away," a clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Morocco: Sun and Pleasures, Inshallah | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

Married. Audrey Hepburn, 39, filmdom's worldly waif (My Fair Lady, Two for the Road); and Dr. Andrea Mario Dotti, 30, handsome Italian psychiatrist whom she met on a Roman holiday last July; she for the second time (her 14-year marriage to Actor Mel Ferrer ended in divorce two months ago), he for the first; in a quiet civil ceremony held near her home in Merges, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 31, 1969 | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...concentration-camp victims after World War II. He scraped together capital from friends and family and set up a village of U.S. Army surplus tents on Mallorca. The accommodations were spartan, but the club's predominantly French members jumped at the chance to spend a two-week holiday on an exotic island for $30. After that, Blitz added one vacation village after another in North Africa, the Middle East and Tahiti as well as in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Mediterranee on the Move | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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