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...food since noon; we were all exhausted; we knew that imprisonment or death or exile lay ahead for most of us. At 4:40 a.m. the first session of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly came to an end. We voted to adjourn and voted a special resolution to meet again at 5 in the afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE DAY DEMOCRACY DIED IN RUSSIA | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Achilles Wrist. In Amersham, England, the city magistrate court was forced to adjourn temporarily when Court Clerk A. Ferguson got writer's cramp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

Although one member then complained that "we can't even make a motion to adjourn," Sloane closed the meeting after he suggested that the members consider the formation of a "pen pal system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Delegate Proposes Policy Of Uniform Rents | 3/19/1957 | See Source »

Conspicuous Stage. The outlook was brighter, and the Western principals of the Middle East drama underscored Ike's deliberate low-pressure calmness by going about other duties. The U.N. General Assembly felt able to adjourn; Secretary of State Dulles felt able to take off for faraway Australia for a meeting of the SEATO Council; U.S. eyes were even swinging over to darkest Africa, where the old British colonial Gold Coast begat the new nation of Ghana to the blare of a New Orleans jazz band and appropriate quotations and paraphrases of Burke, e.g., "We are on a conspicuous stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Doctrine & Beyond | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...week's end the Arabs and Asians had introduced their sanctions resolution in the U.N. (see FOREIGN NEWS), but they soon allowed the session to adjourn so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: What I'm Going To Do | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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