Word: recessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the Christmas recess we found ourselves bombarded with dozens of stories claiming 1962 was a "great year" in the world of sports. A little investigation revealed that 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958 and numerous other years were also great for sports fans, but from the overwhelming evidence put forth by scribes across the land, we had little choice but to go along with the consensus and record 1962 as truly amazing in our book...
...world." To make sure that the next session would go faster, he set up a new secretariat under his Secretary of State, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, to carry on council deliberations until the council fathers reconvene on Sept. 8. To each bishop he arranged to send all proposals during the recess, in a sort of continuing council by mail order. As for the disagreements that the council had produced, John dismissed them by saying, "We are not friars singing in a choir...
...balance. Pressing their advantage, Labor and Liberal leaders cried gleefully that the government's foreign and domestic policies were on the brink of collapse. In Macmillan's own Conservative Party, backbenchers were openly restive, and would become even more fractious during Parliament's Christmas recess as they went home to measure the uneasy mood of the country...
...Schorr about his plans, Adenauer replied: "What can I say when I don't know who my successor will be? The calendar date for my retirement has not been determined." Adenauer supporters gleefully pointed out that Adenauer had promised only to retire "after" next summer's Bundestag recess-after could mean anything from ten days to ten years...
Stalemate. At week's end, even the pro forma meetings across the conference table broke off once more. Federal Mediator Stephen I. Schlossberg taxed both sides with failure "to bargain seriously," threatened to maintain the recess "until the parties are ready to make some progress." New York's Mayor Robert Wagner absolved himself of an active mediator's role in a shutdown that has affected the very pulse of his city. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller promised to step in if the need arose, but felt that with a federal mediator on the scene his intervention...