Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue generally subsided until after, the Christmas recess, when a representative of the Timothy Dwight College Council submitted a plan which would extend the sign-out hour to 12 midnight...
After a brief recess, Judge Kaufman went back to the bench to sentence sullen Morton Sobell, because of his "lesser degree of implication," to 30 years. Next day, Judge Kaufman sentenced David Greenglass, the ex-Army sergeant who had fed atomic secrets to the Rosenbergs and whose testimony had convicted his sister and brother-in-law, to a milder 15 years because of his help to the Government...
...also quoted from Guicciardini, Carducci and other poets to show that "during 20 centuries, free-thinking men have often had occasion to think of Popes as guilty of other men's blood." Cried he: "So, do you want to send Dante to jail?" After 50 minutes' recess, the court found Laura Diaz guilty, sentenced her to eight months' imprisonment, suspended the sentence on a surety of good conduct...
...House was about three weeks behind the usual schedule in its appropriation bills. Members talked grandly about pruning appropriations, but they did their pruning with embroidery scissors. Just before it sped away on its recess, the House managed to snip-snip .09% off $2.9 billion funds for Treasury and Post Office. No work at all had been done on the mammoth armed services bill; after all the brave talk about higher income and corporate taxes, there was no chance of a tax bill before late summer or fall. A good deal of the legislative structure of the industrial mobilization program...
Copyright Infringed? Attlee, strained by weeks of stormy parliamentary sessions, is entering a hospital over the Easter recess for a checkup on his 1948 duodenal ulcer, which lately has given signs of returning...