Word: recessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty extended last year's Christmas recess by a week...
Barnaby rearranged practice times for his junior varsity team--and often cut their times--so that the Radcliffe players had one of the three courts for two hours, six days per week. During spring recess, the Athletics Department sent the women's tennis team on a Southern tour...
...pocket veto. In the past, most measures that had been vetoed in this fashion were usually not vital to the national welfare. But Kennedy considered his own bill to be a major undertaking. In addition, Nixon had vetoed the bill in the course of a very brief recess. "If the pocket veto can be applied to a five-day adjournment," argued Kennedy, "why should it not apply to an adjournment of three days or one day or even overnight? At stake is nothing less than an opportunity to take a stand against one aspect of the continuing erosion of congressional...
...reply, the Justice Department maintained that President Nixon had done nothing that had not been done before and been accepted by Congress. Why single him out for attack? The courts were unmoved. The lower court ruled that the recess was too brief to justify a pocket veto. The appeals court went further. Since a pocket veto is a "departure from the central scheme of the Constitution," the court ruled that it could not be exercised during an "intrasession adjournment...
...didn't you give the Greeks and Greek Cypriots the 36-hour recess they requested before ending the talks...