Word: adjourns
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Only six members of the family adjourn to the dining room a few minutes later. Amy has already eaten. Chip and Caron are going out to dinner. The family hold hands around the table while Annette, Jeffs wife, says grace, and Ely Young, a tall black waiter in a tuxedo, prepares to serve the meal: pork chops, boiled broccoli and mashed potatoes...
With antigovernment sentiment on the rise, Labor whips hoped to end debate without a vote on the White Paper by moving to adjourn the House of Commons. When it became clear that Labor could not even muster a majority on that, Callaghan and his grinning supporters stayed on their benches while opposition members filed out to vote. Did the resounding 293-to-0 defeat mean the government's White Paper was dead? Technically no, since the vote was only on whether to go home for a night's sleep...
Before we all adjourn for intersession, I thought this would be an opportune moment to fill you in on some fastbreaking news items that have crossed this desk in the past few days. Some of you probably aren't getting your Times delivered anyway so this hot copy might have passed...
...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...