Word: recess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attacked by a number of legislators. Said Representative Harold D. Byers: "Next we'll be passing a resolution congratulating the Nazis who want to march through Skokie [a Chicago suburb]." In Massachusetts the first state law prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals is expected to pass the house after summer recess; it passed in the senate last month by one vote. Next week homosexual leaders will meet in Washington with representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Women Voters and the women's liberation movement. Among other things, homosexuals plan to lobby against Senate approval...
...Supreme Court often saves the best for last-waiting until the final days of its annual term before issuing the bulk of its most significant and difficult opinions. Before embarking last week on a three-month summer recess, the Justices issued a barrage of orders and decisions on the last of 176 cases considered during the 1976-77 term. The key ones...
...trial began with a Curcio lieutenant reading a manifesto that denounced the whole process as a "grotesque spectacle." Curcio himself pointed to the ten impassive black-robed defense attorneys and called them "crows in form and pigs in substance." When the trial reconvened after a four-day recess, he demanded to return to his cell, and the manacled prisoners clanked out of the courtroom...
...Bordley, a starter on the Harvard wrestling team this past winter, swept through four opponents the first weekend of spring recess to win the 167 lb. title in the National Blind Wrestling Tournament...
When Henry Kissinger talked with reporters on a diplomatic shuttle, he was like a wise, witty potentate holding a levee for his courtiers. When Cyrus Vance unbends with newsmen on a mission abroad, it is more like a corporation lawyer at a court recess commenting discreetly on the intricacies of an antitrust case sub judice. TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, who has traveled with both Secretaries of State, last week cabled this commentary on their differing styles...