Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city officials in Atlanta, it was a case of grand larceny. Right there in the downtown Holiday Inn, in daylight, recruiters from the city of Houston were trying to steal members of Atlanta's police department. Their inducement was a higher salary ($14,475) than Atlanta's first-year officers earn...
...sure, most visitors will want at least to see the big cities, if not to tarry in them. Thus the Strategic American Traveler (SAT) is well advised to find pleasant bases within easy distance of capitals, at prices lower than at any stateside Holiday Inn. In many countries, excellent railroads and mass transit provide fast, cheap transportation, particularly if the visitor takes advantage of the low-cost passes available to foreigners...
Practically every Nicaraguan, from Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle to his opponents in the Sandinista National Liberation Front, usually tries to go on vacation in Holy Week. The traditional holiday was shattered last week by a bloody eruption of the country's sputtering civil war. Discarding a truce they had announced for the week before Easter, 100 battle-hardened guerrillas took up positions in trenches and behind concrete barricades in the city of Esteli (pop. 25,000), where hundreds died in the bloodiest fighting of last September's Sandinista uprising. They were quickly joined by young protesters...
When the peace treaty is signed a national holiday should be declared by Israel, Egypt and the U.S. so that all the people can pay homage to three courageous leaders...
...turn in the stream, both canoes struck a tree that had been mostly obscured by the flood. The lead canoe tipped its passengers and then righted itself, floating out of reach of the boaters. The second wrapped itself around the tree and stayed there, a bizarre Christmas ornament one holiday late. Rescuers in Guerneyville picked up five of the six canoers within three hours of the accident. The next day they recovered the body of the sixth. Joseph Richmond Levenson, Sather Professor of History at the University of California, my father...