Word: recessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plaintiffs' attorney, Rex Carr. "This isn't the kind of stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat." The numbing routine continues five days a week, six hours a day, with an hour out for lunch and brief midmorning and midafternoon breaks, plus a Christmas-New Year recess and a two-week summer vacation...
...spring break. The traditional time to shed campus cares and haul hormones off for some sun and fun. But as the recess started last week at Vanderbilt University, one group of students was off in pursuit of more serious exertions. A score went to a Sioux reservation in South Dakota to do painting, tiling and light carpentry at a Y.M.C.A. center; a dozen arrived in Juarez, Mexico, to help build a "serviglesia," a church to serve the poor; another twelve headed for Appalachia's "Valley of Despair" to plant fir trees and work on construction and furniture-building projects. Says...
Students can purchase a seven-day lunch and dinner contract for the recess period--March 29 through April 5--for $60 if they sign up for the program by March 18 in their house dining hall or at the Freshman Union. People on the plan also get brunch on April...
William Casey, Director of Central Intelligence and boss of the CIA, emerged through the same doors 5 1/2 hours later. He had testified about the growing scandal during all that time without a recess. When it was over, the 73-year-old former New York City lawyer and self-made millionaire seemed drained -- and his inquisitors disturbed. They were appalled mostly by how little the CIA chief professed to know. The head of an intelligence network that has snoops planted in hostile governments around the globe and has eavesdropped on Kremlin officials as they talked on their limousine telephones claimed...
...only apparent glimmer of progress, Shevardnadze agreed to consider a proposal by Shultz that U.S. and Soviet experts meet when regular U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiations in Geneva are in recess...