Word: recessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council meetings, God forbid. Sunday night, at the council's most important meeting of the term, the council was forced to conduct not one, but two quorum calls. The first time, less than half of the council was present, so the council called a recess, and a handful of council members scurried frantically to the freshman dorms and to the telephones to try to round up enough of your exhausted representatives so that the council might conduct official business...
...than parliamentary legitimacy: an ice cream parlor with a short line. To no avail. Emack and Bolio's, Herrell's, Baskin Robbin's, and Brigham's all had mile-long queues. And by the time the bunch arrived at Store 24, there were only four minutes remaining in the recess, so the group returned to Emerson 105 empty-handed and out of breath...
After some two hours of debate, Kilminster, who had supported Thiokol's no- go position, asked for a five-minute recess to consider NASA's objections. The break stretched on for half an hour. Caucusing in Utah, the engineers remained unanimous against the launch. Nonetheless, Mason declared that "we have to make a management decision," then turned to Lund and asked him to 'take off his engineering hat and put on his management hat." In front of the surprised engineers, Mason polled only the management officials, getting Lund, Wiggins and Kilminster to join him in giving NASA a recommendation from...
...Party's third congress, including representatives from 100 socialist countries, he vigorously and theatrically attacked rampant waste, mismanagement and indiscipline in Cuba's faltering economic system, still heavily dependent on Soviet subsidies. After two hours of a 5-hr. 40-min. marathon, Castro, 59, called an unusual half-hour recess. Precisely 30 minutes later, the Cuban dictator, who often wears two watches to be sure he is on time, strode onto the podium to continue his speech...
...eight-month trial. Both judge and defendants were protected behind bulletproof glass shields. After taking the bench, Judge Mahesh Chandra wasted no time. The evidence was overwhelming, he said, that the three suspects in the October 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi were guilty. Following a brief recess, Chandra declared this to be one of those "rarest of rare" crimes in which the ultimate penalty was clearly called for. He then sentenced the men to death. Asked if they had anything to say, the three bearded and turbaned defendants each stood up and declared, "I am innocent...