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Word: holidaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Granddaddy. The Pentagon had long wanted approval to bomb Thai Nguyen. But not until the failure of peace probes during the Tet holiday truce did Lyndon Johnson give the scramble signal to the Air Force. Reconnaissance of the target and bad weather, which has limited strikes over North Viet Nam since January, held up the attack until last week. Then, as the monsoon clouds began to break up, U.S. Navy A-4 Skyhawks from the carriers Kitty Hawk and Ticonderoga began hitting the usual railyards and petroleum dumps while U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers based in Thailand got ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: The Cost Goes Up Again | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...your afternoon classes today and go to South Boston. It's St. Patrick's Day, a legal holiday, and they don't have holidays like this back in Kansas City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Find Some Greenery And Head For Southie: It's St. Patrick's Day | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

Change of Tactics. Peking issued pleas to China's 500 million peasants to make certain that spring planting gets under way, and the army was ordered to pitch in and help down on the farm. After nine months' holiday, nearly all primary and some secondary schools were reopened. Skilled government and party workers were being restored to their jobs and to official favor. Above all, as a Central Committee directive made plain, the new theme was unity, specifically a "threeway alliance" among the army, the Red Guards and the party cadres. In one Kweichow cotton mill, reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Muzzling the Dragons | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...Communist troops in the South, the U.S. possesses a large arsenal of tactics and weaponry as yet unused against Hanoi. Last week the U.S. introduced three new forms of military pressure against the enemy's supply lines. This was the response to the Communist use of the Tet holiday truce last month to funnel some 25,000 tons of war materiel southward. Each of the three new moves was carefully tailored for a specific and precise military mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Three More Notches | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...charged in his divorce suit last year that her slacks were too tight. And in his peculiar, affecting way, Clay childishly dreams of lovely Edens: "The type of house I like would be all glass on the front and on one side, like those modern motels you see-Holiday Inns, and I want nothing but goooooooold carpets. When the average person walks in it'll be like being in heaven, dreamland. My children will be born in the hereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gee Gee | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

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