Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just to make sure that no Democrat walked off with the national capital while Congress was in recess, the Republicans had left a man behind to guard the place. Last week it was Senator John Bricker's turn to man the fort. With not much else to do, Acting Captain of the Guard Bricker gave reporters some of his ideas. One of them was that Bricker thought Congress might have to extend rent controls. Coming from Bricker, that was news. It was he who led the stubborn fight last summer against rent controls, but last week...
...differential, income-tax exemption, commissary rights and "recuperative" vacations of two months a year. These features have combined to make life in the isthmian strip a kind of welfare-state Elysium. But last week Elysium looked a little more like the good old U.S.A. Before leaving for its recess, Congress had enacted a law decreeing that the Zone's Government employees, like federal workers elsewhere, must pay regular income taxes. Unkindest cut of all for the Zonians: the tax was made retroactive...
...Suisun Base, 50 miles north of San Francisco. Out came the passengers-18 women, 24 children, 4 soldiers-muscles stiff from the long 7,000-mile ride from Tokyo. In the airfield's noisy, sprawling, glass-walled building, the children found a haven under the protection of Operation Recess; volunteer nurses popped the smallest in cribs, kept the bigger ones busy with comic books. A few of the women belonged to Operation Raven, the Air Force's sardonic tag for the widows of men killed in Korea...
There was no longer any hope of adjournment. But Administration leaders were anxious to get at least a recess. "We've got to shut off those damn speeches," explained one. "Everybody wants to pop off for the folks back home...
Since then, Bobby's life has taken on a busy pattern. At 7 each morning, he is awake, poring over chemistry books until breakfast. At lunch recess, he runs down to his laboratory to see how his latest experiments are coming (he is now making photographs of radioactive uranium acetate). After dinner he goes back to his laboratory again: "And if it's an important experiment I stay down there a real long time...