Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deteriorating Situation. It was also summertime, and the living was getting easier in most European countries. Parliaments were in recess, and the news out of Russia was not of cold threats but of warm toasts with obliging British Socialists. Puzzled newsmen seeking to measure French public response to the defeat of EDC found pockets of Frenchmen dejected by the destruction of a European ideal and other pockets newly passionate in their fear of Germany. But the general tone was "we couldn't care less...
Mendes pressed on: "We were paralyzed by our indecision. Now that we are freed of that particular indecision, we must act and quickly." He proposed to recess the Assembly, but demanded a vote of support for the foreign policies he intended to pursue. The debate showed, he argued, that "if there is a division, it is not on the end, but on the means of organizing Western defense . . . Our policy is unchanged: that of the Atlantic alliance and the organization of Europe, which should be founded on Franco-German reconciliation ... I cannot believe that we shall fail to find...
...fact keeping his promise to the U.S. to bring the matter to a vote before the summer is over; but there was an important qualification to his deadline. He was promising only an Assembly decision next week; the Senate would not get to the debate until the summer recess ends in October or November-and during this additional period, Mendès reassured the left wing of his majority, Russia would have time to come forward with genuine concessions in Western Europe if it wanted badly enough to halt German rearmament. So Russia too was being offered an alternative...
Evidently, this meant that Knowland can recess the Senate when its work is done. The committee will stay in Washington to study the Flanders motion and sift charges against McCarthy. When the committee is ready to report, the Senate can be called back to Washington to vote on the conduct of the junior Senator from Wisconsin...
...Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 55, likely during the court's summer recess to turn up anywhere, turned up in Australia hobnobbing with outbackers. After a week's trial of aboriginal delicacies, he was still in ruddy good health. Sample daily menu: scrambled turtle eggs for breakfast, stuffed high-jumping wallaby for lunch, roast flying fox (an outsize bat) for dinner...