Word: recessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, amid new comforts, Britain's M.P.s, tanned and bright-eyed from a two-month recess, last week rolled up their sleeves for the fagend of the 1946 parliamentary session...
...effort to bring together the scattered Class of '48, a Smoker for all Class members is currently being planned for an evening between the Yale game and the Christmas recess, Arthur C. McGill '48, chairman of the temporary class committee, announced last night after a preliminary meeting...
...work (before sending treaty texts to plenary sessions), Paris diplomats had argued and counter-drafted till sunrise, two nights in a row. On the third night, grappling with the economic clauses of the Balkan treaties, they reeled off 17 hours of continuous session-broken only by a ten-minute recess at 4 a.m. to permit delegates to get bracers before the bar closed. At the finish, U.S. Economist Willard Thorp slumped down Luxembourg's red-carpeted stairway and crawled into an automobile. He groaned that he had a crick in his neck, cramps in his fingers, aches everywhere; that...
...Capitol Hill the echoless chambers of Congress slumbered in the hush of recess. But in the garish ballroom of New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt last week a rump session of 34 disgruntled Senators and Representatives chorused a rebel yell...
Last week his hopes for a summer recess from conferences, official calls, paper work and Washington's weather finally materialized. Wearing his weariness with a jaunty and well-pressed air, he boarded the 244-ft. presidential yacht Williamsburg, set out on a dawdling, 18-day cruise into New England waters...