[1966] "Black Friday" (day after Thanksgiving)
Mark Mandel
thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Thu Apr 24 01:58:17 UTC 2008
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake
<taylor-blake at nc.rr.com> wrote:
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> 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? It
looks very strange to me.
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Mark Mandel
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