Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Give me an example!" you say. A couple of week ago, around that little holiday that acutely reminds some of us--just in case we forgot--that we are single, my friends were plagued with a string of constant complaints that seemed to trip from my tongue as effortlessly as conversations about the weather. They got to hear all about how unhappy I was that this Valentine's Day would be so different from last year's, when I was in a "happy relationship." Never mind that I'm now more than happy with the way things turned...
...According to Cherny, Mondale once explained his reluctance to run by saying he didn't want to spend two years living in Holiday Inns...
...Give me an example!" you say. A couple of weeks ago, around that little holiday that acutely reminds some of us--just in case we forgot--that we are single, my friends were plagued with a string of constant complaints that seemed to trip from my tongue as effortlessly as conversations about the weather. They got to hear all about how unhappy I was that this Valentine's Day would be so different from last year's, when I was in a "happy relationship." Never mind that I'm now more than happy with the way things turned...
...contrast, consider for a moment Kwanzaa, a black quasi-alternative to Christmas. The inspiration for Kwanzaa was born not in a manger, but in the mind of a would-be wise man, Dr. Maulana Karenga, a college professor in the 1960s. The holiday is founded on a fairly simple, if somewhat alarming, syllogism: blacks share a common African cultural heritage; blacks do not have a winter holiday of their own to celebrate; so blacks ought to have a holiday of their own with African underpinnings, festive rituals and all the trappings of a religious feast...
...commodity--like a sack of potatoes," says Bruce Harris, executive director of a children's shelter in San Jose, Costa Rica. One doesn't have to go far to see his point. Down the street from the San Jose police headquarters, 10-year-old prostitutes await customers from the Holiday...