Word: adjourn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rauh replies that Johnson "won't budge." He is certain there will be no new compromise. Moses speaks of the rumor that the Credentials Committee may adjourn without making a report...
...merest formality, the coup de gráce, and then everyone could adjourn to the clubhouse for the popping of the corks. There stood "Champagne Tony" Lema at last week's Cleveland Open, 15 under par, with just a one-foot putt between him and $20,000-and everybody knows that golf pros do not miss one-foot putts. But there was a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Ever so casually, Tony stepped up to the ball. Ever so casually, he pushed it right around the hole...
...pimply raggare, teenage rowdies who drive battered U.S. cars, roar up the Kungs-gatan, stop to pick up a nymphet, then roar off again. Mothers and children troop off to cottages beside gleaming lakes and fjords to sail, swim and hike until fall. Except that they usually adjourn to summer palaces, Scandinavia's royal princes and princesses follow much the same routine. This summer has been different-but then, it's not every year that royal families get to marry off three daughters...
...present. Of the absentees, 44 were civil rights supporters, three of them -Rhode Island's John Pastore, Missouri's Edward Long and Washington's Warren Magnuson - "captains" of Humphrey's Democratic team. For the first time in nearly two years, the Senate was forced to adjourn because it had been unable to muster a majority needed to do business...
...first it had to go through the Rules Committee-which turned up two shy of a quorum. Halleck offered to produce two Republicans, but only if the Democratic leadership would agree to accept the next floor vote as final and let the House adjourn...