Word: adjournment
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...think it applies. I don't think I violated any law," muttered The Man as the committee prepared to adjourn...
Having waited 35 years for democracy, China this week was moving fast. Delegates to the National Assembly meeting at Nanking prepared to vote on some of the 300 changes proposed in the 1936 constitution draft, hoped to adjourn by Christmas with the task completed...
...Christian diplomats are no respecters of each other's holy days. At the U.N. meeting in The Bronx last month, Soviet Delegate Gromyko proposed that the Security Council meet on Good Friday, was voted down. In Paris last week Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov proposed that the peace conference adjourn for May 1, high point in the Red devotional year. His (Communistically) impious colleagues overruled...
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...Pearl Harbor Committee, which few lawyers regard as a possible stepping-stone to fame, finally found a new counsel, decided to adjourn for ten days so that he could catch up with the estimated 1,500,000 words of testimony and records before questioning Admiral Kinimel and General Short...