Word: recessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Classics traveled to Puerto Rico and Portugal during spring recess the last two years. Although John Harvey, organizer and coach of The Classics, has been unable to work out a trip next week, appears The Classics will need their passports in June...
Hundley vaulted into prominence during the long Watergate cover-up trial. He acquired near hero status among fellow smokers by regularly offering a plausible reason for a recess, even though all he really wanted was a cigarette. Once, when he was representing Mitchell, Judge John Sirica angrily threatened to clear the courtroom after an outburst of laughter. Deadpanned Hundley, whose client was having a particularly bad day: "How do you feel about crying, Judge?" Spectators roared, and Sirica relaxed...
After three days of debate, the Senators adjourned for a week-long recess; but before leaving Washington, they agreed to an unusual closed-door session next week to discuss charges that General Torrijos is involved in secret drug traffic. When the issue was raised by a treaty opponent, Robert Dole of Kansas, Fellow Republican Jacob Javits of New York argued that the point was meaningless. "We don't have to prove that Torrijos is an angel. I don't think he is ... What is important is whether the treaties are in the long-term interest of the United...
...computers "capable of playing important roles in the intellectual development of their children." Says California Author Robert Albrecht, a pioneer of electronic education: "In schools, computers will be more common than carousel slide projectors, movie projectors and tape recorders. They'll be used from the moment school opens, through recess, through lunch period, and on as far into the day as the principal will keep the school open...
...President Carter's battle against energy waste seems to be winding up the moral equivalent of Pickett's Charge. Carter's energy bill is not dead yet, but its vital signs are fading. Congress adjourned last week for its ten-day Lincoln's Birthday recess, leaving the measure comatose in a House-Senate conference committee and the nation not much closer to a comprehensive energy program than it was when Carter first unwrapped his plan last April...