Word: adjourns
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...pimply raggare, teenage rowdies who drive battered U.S. cars, roar up the Kungs-gatan, stop to pick up a nymphet, then roar off again. Mothers and children troop off to cottages beside gleaming lakes and fjords to sail, swim and hike until fall. Except that they usually adjourn to summer palaces, Scandinavia's royal princes and princesses follow much the same routine. This summer has been different-but then, it's not every year that royal families get to marry off three daughters...
...present. Of the absentees, 44 were civil rights supporters, three of them -Rhode Island's John Pastore, Missouri's Edward Long and Washington's Warren Magnuson - "captains" of Humphrey's Democratic team. For the first time in nearly two years, the Senate was forced to adjourn because it had been unable to muster a majority needed to do business...
...first it had to go through the Rules Committee-which turned up two shy of a quorum. Halleck offered to produce two Republicans, but only if the Democratic leadership would agree to accept the next floor vote as final and let the House adjourn...
...move that Celler and McCulloch feared more than anything else: if Moore's motion had passed, the bill would have gone to Judge Smith's Rules Committee, and subsequent death. Before they could vote, the noon bell rang to convene the House, and the committee had to adjourn. Later Celler canceled committee sessions until at least this week...
Although the trial had lasted at this point 'til about six o'clock, there was no sign that the court intended to adjourn. Actually, the judge intended to continue the case until late at night; the prosecution knew that the defense had an important witness arriving the next day, and it hoped to force the defense to rest its case before that witness could testify the next morning. When the conspiracy between the prosecution, the Sheriff and the judge became patently obvious, defense attorney Hollowell frightened the judge into a recess by hinting there were several more witnesses to testify...