Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a lantern of Serbian passion. Serbs venerate the land because it is home to several important monasteries, and in 1389 their ancestors lost a decisive battle with the Ottoman Empire there, setting off 500 years of Turkish rule. The day of the battle is a national holiday--something that last week caused observers to note that understanding the Serb outlook meant understanding a country that memorializes defeats instead of victories...
...love children, flowers and Touched By An Angel. I once even sent cards to my grandmothers for that fake Grandparents Day holiday. That's not going to happen again. But no matter how much I want to be a normal, manly, overconsuming American, I can't get myself to like dogs. I don't want to hate dogs. But I just can't imagine sharing my apartment with some dirty, dependent animal willing to trade unconditional love for canned food that, to be honest, I find a little salty. How can people love something so much that they're willing...
...Jerusalem Renaissance Hotel, father of three and a Muslim, is one of the richest men in Israel. For a week. For the fourth time. Because Jewish law forbids possession of certain grains on Passover, Jews who own bread or bakery companies sell their inventory to a Gentile for the holiday. The Sephardic and Ashkenazic chief rabbis sell it all to Jaber, who gives the Finance Ministry a check for $25,000 as a deposit for food products worth about $50 million. Jaber says he does it as "a gesture to the rabbis." He makes nothing on the deal. Now that...
...research scientist with a profitable side practice treating the syphilis infections of prominent London artists, was pursuing his pet theory--that his own nasal mucus had antibacterial effects--when he left a culture plate smeared with Staphylococcus bacteria on his lab bench while he went on a two-week holiday...
...sharp boundaries of set theory with what he called family resemblances. "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language," he declared, and language bewitches us by enticing us to concoct "theories" to solve philosophical problems that arise only "when language goes on holiday...