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Word: holidaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floridly invoking the help of what at least one refers to as "the Great Legislator of the Universe." From there, they wander. A wordy example is Louisiana's 1,000-page backbreaker, which gets into such minute areas as declaring Huey Long's birthday forever a legal holiday. Georgia's offers $250,000 to the state's first discoverer of oil. California's exempts from taxation certain "fruit- and nutbearing trees under the age of four years." Such details belong in the statutory code, not the constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State Constitutions: Tough to Write a Good One | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...movies and operates model trains. He no longer roars around Teheran in a Ferrari, but is a jet pilot with 5,000 hours' experience in flying just about everything but carpets. Both he and Farah-his third wife*-like nothing better than to escape for a skiing holiday in Switzerland or a week or so of waterskiing at Naushahr on the Caspian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Revolution from the Throne | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

Under the new Constitution, 65 of the 563 seats in Parliament will still be chosen personally by el Caudillo. Two weeks ago, Franco stopped off in Madrid from a summer holiday in Galicia, announced his choices, then left again for some hunting in Andalucia. An other 394 members of Parliament will be picked by Spain's municipal councilmen, trade unions, Falange, and professional and cultural organizations. The big change will come in the selection of the remaining 104 members. They will be popularly elected by Spain's family heads and married women over 21, representing half of Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Experiment with Democracy | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...newspaperman that Commodore Schley had beaten the Spanish at Santiago, virtually ending the Spanish-American War, Baruch spent July 4, 1898, on the cable buying U.S. stocks in the London market. Next day he made a neat profit when the New York Stock Exchange reopened following the holiday and prices shot upwards on word of the victory. Baruch was proud to have been a speculator, but he cringed at the implications the term came to carry. "Modern usage," he noted in a 1957 autobiography, "has made the term 'speculator' a synonym for gambler and plunger. Actually the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE MERITS OF SPECULATION | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...limerick is lowbrow poetry muttered by beery men glad to get away from their wives and into the saloon. A strict art form, the limerick is the special province of the literate, oldfashioned, word-oriented man. Only those who respect and understand the magic of words can enjoy the holiday from sense in the limerick, where the rhyme as often as not dictates the sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: There Was A Young Man of ... | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

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