Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet. Then an alarm, ostensibly for a fire drill, was rung. The student body filed out of the school, onto the sidewalk directly in front of the block-long cordon. Only one Negro girl was seen among the white students. She laughed and sang school songs during the recess that followed, along with the other children...
...Passed up half a dozen invitations from other northeastern resort areas, e.g., Massachusetts' Cape Cod, announced that he will spend a work-play holiday at Newport, R.I.* "if and when" the House of Representatives declares a recess (leaving the Senate to grind on with civil rights). Sold on Newport by Naval Aide Captain Evan P. Aurand, Ike will relax at Marine-guarded, 92-acre Coaster's Harbor Island, a secluded U.S. Navy installation (home of the Naval War College and a naval training station) hard by the lush Rhode Island summer colony, will stay in the twelve-room...
...righteous Wayne Morse) supporting Knowland, and five mossy Republicans (Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nevada's George Malone, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young, Delaware's John Williams) breaking ranks to join the Southerners. Still ahead after the Fourth of July recess: an all-out Southern attempt to drown it in a flood of filibluster...
Prodded by such sentiment, Washington's erstwhile big spenders were scrambling like refugees to the safe side of economy. None made the move with more agility than Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Before recess Lyndon had edged close to the border, but he had also aired his private conviction that the budget flap would soon blow over. Ten days of Texas barbecues and bellyaching had turned him into economy's all-out champion: "I have never in my career seen such a strong demand for economy in Government." So general was the agreement that Capitol Hill was betting...
Last week, as Parliament returned from its Easter recess, the commentators' phrases about the Prime Minister had changed to "jaunty, nonchalant, a sure and easy hand." "One of those astonishing reversals of political form that so often confound the pundits," said the Manchester Guardian. Even Laborites accorded him grudging admiration. In the Daily Mirror Richard Grossman, the usually captious Laborite M.P., admitted that Macmillan was giving the Tories "just the kind of dashing, decisive leadership they expected but never got from poor Sir Anthony Eden...