Word: recessed
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Whatever final action is taken will be effective for a trial period until the June recess the committee emphasized...
After three weeks of recess, this was a decision day. Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, impressive as always, leaned forward, nodded to Associate Justice Wiley B. Rutledge. Justice Rutledge read the Court's majority opinion-a routine case. The Chief Justice, his solid face impassive, swiftly read a brief dissent...
...apologized for omitting the addresses.) In the deliberate fashion of a schoolmaster lecturing a group of dull pupils, he interspersed pointed remarks directed at the Russian. (On one occasion: "Is the Russian representative understanding all this?" On another: "Will you kindly interpret that to General Derevyanko?") At the noon recess a correspondent asked when Whitney would finish. He smiled and answered: "I may be through by the end of summer...
Wilmot and the less patient Laborites began to realize that socialism's clock had been a little fast. There was still plenty of fight left in the Tories. Before the Easter recess they won their first victory: Minister Wilmot announced that the Federation's special report, until then a cabinet secret, would be published...
...biggest boy I could find (6 ft. 1 in.), hit him as hard as I could, was sworn at, slapped him again, and stood my ground until he slunk off to tell the principal on me. That ended snowballing in the Wrong Place. I had to go out next recess into the field and throw snowballs, just to show I could take...