Word: adjourning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Strange things happen in Washington when the Congress is in a hurry to adjourn. One of the more peculiar remnants of the hectic last days of the 85th Congress is a loyalty oath provision attached to the National Defense Education...
...cancellation of 150 train schedules, and a brief teachers' walkout closed half the nation's schools. But Kishi's most nettlesome problem was in the Diet itself. Only four out of 46 bills introduced this session have been passed, and the Diet was scheduled to adjourn before week's end. Kishi decided to have the Diet's Speaker announce a 30-day extension...
Hays-Bick will adjourn for an hour so its caffeinized contingents of the anguished and the unwashed can make a bee-line for Emerson Hall. Visiting Professor Earle will try to fill huge vacuum in Harvard's Philosophy department by discussing the heresies of European existentialism in Room F. Orthodox analysts down the hall in Emerson A will smirk smugly at 138a's talk of being and angst while they doodle rigorously with 140's metamathematical p's and q's. The literati, both serious and dilantante, will feel all the agonies of existentialist Choice themselves in deciding between Harbage...
...Special Interests. If Ike's long-range economic and political proposals got a slow welcome, the U.N. General Assembly could scarcely adjourn without working out a resolution that at least attempted to ease the pressing problems of Lebanon and Jordan. And here the problem was not only the Arabs, but a variety of special national interests in the 81-nation General Assembly: ¶ The Russians were sounding conciliatory in hopes of mustering a two-thirds majority for a resolution sufficiently ambiguous to be cited later as proof that the U.N. "ordered"' the U.S. and Britain out of Lebanon...
...ending was rather tense however, for the teams had agreed to adjourn at 7:30 p.m. (it began at 2:45) and at 7, the Elis still had four wickets in hand, threatening to turn a clear win into a draw. However, splendid bowling by the Crimson's Barry Eastment and Charlie Mills enabled the eleven to put the Elis out with two minutes to spare...