Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the McCarthy-Army hearings were in recess, there were plenty of pin wheels whirling around the issues they had raised. By their fitful light and the rockets' red glare, it was plain that the Eisenhower Administration was determined to quench Joe McCarthy...
...Steel promptly called a two-week recess to study the proposals. Chairman Fairless, who himself took a slight pay cut (from $261,200 to $258,000) last year, said that he wanted to settle peacefully and quickly. But falling demand has forced Big Steel and the rest of the industry to cut output in 1954, and they are in no mood to shoulder heavy additional costs. The Steelworkers themselves were not talking strike. Said a union spokesman: "These are things we have outlined for discussion . . . That does not necessarily mean that it is our price for industrial peace...
...been blocked from what looked like a good opening into more diversionary headlines, Such as LODGE DENIES HE TOOK KREMLIN ORDERS. Despite his familiarity with the issue on which Brownell repeated the traditional stand of the executive, McCarthy professed the utmost bewilderment. He asked for a five-minute recess to consult with his aides about "this unbelievable situation...
...brevity. Mundt's smiling submission to stalling and deviations on both sides and to the points of disorder raised by McCarthy, has won him acclaim as an impartial and patient judge. But this leniency has let the inquiry roam through so many irrelevant topics, that talk of a Christmas recess is hardly unwarranted. At the rate hearings have progressed so far, public interest will surely ebb long before they are finished. Moreover, the television networks, which have taken terrific losses in return for their extensive coverage, will probably omit portions of the inquiry...
...Roaring Lions. At his usual corner table in the Carroll Arms Hotel, during the luncheon recess, McCarthy gulped down a Manhattan, a slice of lamb and coffee. His suit coat was off, his shirt clung to him, soaked through. The going had been hot & heavy, and there was more, much more, to come...