Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decamped to Oxford and established a new and freer university; soon their idea spread throughout Europe, along with an entire youth subculture of drinking, wenching, dueling and an arcane language, a bastardized Latin eminently suited for drinking songs. In Italy, students formed guilds and hired professors (granted only one holiday a year), dictated the curriculum, and at Bologna even insisted that their teachers speak at the double in order to get their money's worth...
...Viet Nam, the week began and ended in the holiday artifice of truce...
Only on Christmas day, when the prisons were serving a holiday banquet, was there a pause in the exodus. One escapee even re-enacted a stunt from the Peter Sellers movie Two Way Stretch: he rode to freedom secreted in side a prison garbage truck, all the while desperately ducking the automatic arm that crushes the refuse. Lest would-be escapees lack so antic an imagination, the Mountbatten committee provided a few suggestions of its own. As it out lined weak points in the prison security system, it theorized about a whole range of potential escapes - from prisoners scooped...
...Frank Mitchell, 37, the so-called "mad axman of Broadmoor," who escaped last month and wanted it known that "I am sorry that my absence has caused certain people to think badly of men like Mr. Roy Jenkins." But all Home Secretary Jenkins could do was cut short his holiday and return to his office, determined to submit the Mountbatten recommendations to Parliament...
...Christmas-New Year's holiday is the big week for skiing, and right across the nation, resorts were strained to capacity - including those in Vermont, where a Christmas Eve storm dumped two feet of snow on slopes that had been brown. For New England skiers and resort owners, the last-minute reprieve was nothing short of miraculous...