[1966] "Black Friday" (day after Thanksgiving)

Bonnie Taylor-Blake taylor-blake at NC.RR.COM
Thu Apr 24 04:49:02 UTC 2008


Mark Mandel asked:

> >  All in all, "Black Friday" certainly lived-up to its reputation.  In
fact it
> >  lasted for two days, with more of the same traffic and congestion the
> >  Saturday which followed.
>
> Is that hyphen in "lived-up to its reputation" in the original?

Yes.

-- Bonnie

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