Word: in-season
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...Each morning he chatted and chaffed his way through ten appointments, and each afternoon he thrashed about, thigh deep, in the budget. Outside his oval office early in the week an unseasonably warm sun drenched the White House's south lawn. Inside, a hustling Truman was as busily in-season as a department-store clerk in the Christmas rush...
Flying in the face of rationality, always an in-season Congressional pastime, is currently being pursued with vigor by the House Appropriations Committee. Falling in with Washington's present tendency to elevate "economy" into an end in itself, the subcommittee has in effect eliminated the broadcasts through which America has been telling the world her side of the postwar struggle for position...