Word: xmas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under a blazing sun and cloudless sky, Vincent Olebogeng strolls past an ore bucket spray-painted MERRY XMAS 86. Though the temperature is 87 degreesF, Olebogeng considers the weather cool relief. Thirty minutes earlier, he was two miles underground, moving tons of dusty gray ore in the almost unbearable heat of Durban Deep, a gold mine at Roodeport, ten miles west of Johannesburg. He has worked nearly 300 days in the past year, but he will not work tomorrow. After the paymaster hands him a brown envelope containing his monthly wages of 270 rand ($122), Olebogeng is ready to travel...
...doesn't snow that much in Nashville, Tennessee, either, but Willie Nelson sure seems to have an innate musical understanding of the holiday season, with his recent Xmas release, Pretty Paper. Jimmy Carter's favorite country crooner has never really been that adventurous in the first place, and so the restrained reliance on cover material doesn't really seem that odd on his latest album. And how can you really go wrong with tunes like "White Christmas," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and "Frosty the Snowman?" Indeed, Nelson's quiet touch on the acoustic guitar, combined with a voice more...
This year Xmas is going to be on the mailman. During the entire holiday stampede, we do not intend to stick one toe out of the house to buy anything. (Well, maybe the odd beaker of Beefeater, says Father.) Has doddering senility finally overtaken your parents? By no means. We have, rather, been enveloped by Efficiency, Luxury and Modernity. We have succumbed to the Mail-Order Catalogue, which in our youth was something that farmers used...
...Associated Press, Four bells to tell us we're out of this mess. It seems that King Ronald on horseback proclaimed, "For the stopping of Christmas, I'll never be blamed. From those bad man in PATCO I'll lift my injunction, By gee and by golly--this Xmas will function." So he told David Stockman (on his Trojan steed), "Quick, print up the extra cash that we'll need." Happy that Yuletide by fortune was kissed, We began the long task of preparing our list...
...dozens of radio stations in the U.S., played Beatle records almost exclusively for days after the murder. Boston's classical music station WBGH-FM aired a symphonic medley of Lennon's music. ABC-TV closed its news broadcast on Christmas Eve with Lennon's recording Happy Xmas (War Is Over), showing a montage of Lennon's life and Pope John Paul II bestowing a blessing as Lennon sang "And so this is Christmas. I hope you have...