Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ticket patrons to a truckload of turkey and Alaskan salmon, a 38-piece waltz-playing orchestra, and decor featuring 25-ft. tall columns from the set of La Traviata carted over from the San Francisco Opera. Those folk who tend to sniff at such goings on could adjourn to the Cocteau Room, where the walls were covered with protruding noses...
...shall adjourn until Soc Sci 160," said one student to two others as they departed before the lights went down on those first slides...
...been the most demanding term in memory." Often falling behind in their work, first because of the prolonged illness and retirement of Justice William O. Douglas, then because of the complex controversy over campaign spending, the Justices spent all last week in a confused and unsuccessful attempt to adjourn for the summer. The court's ancient print shop was running overtime to keep up with the last-minute flood of opinions, estimated at 1,000 pages' worth. The pressure may in part explain generally poor reviews of the court's work. "As a whole," said the University...
...Congress is scheduled to adjourn late this week, after Premier Aleksei Kosygin discusses Russia's new economic program, which is also guaranteed to be praised by an assortment of party officials, ordinary comrades and visiting dignitaries. The strongest notes of dissent last week came from Italy's Berlinguer and from Gaston Plissonnier, leader of the French Communist delegation. Berlinguer proclaimed that his party would be willing to cooperate with widely divergent ideologies within "a pluralistic and democratic system." Next day, Plissonnier declared that France's Communists would seek "a socialism of the French sort" including "the guarantee...
...that light note there was a motion to adjourn, which passed by a voice vote...