Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parliament's last session before the summer recess, and the hands on the House clock were moving close to 10 p.m., the hour for the final vote on Prime Minister Harold Wilson's drastic bill to freeze wages and prices. Wilson knew that he would win. But he also knew that some two dozen left-wing Laborites were certain to abstain in protest against his tactics in steamrollering the bill through Commons...
...enough time for most students to travel to their homes. But Lowell enacted his policy of nationalization quickly, and soon many more students were travelling further and further to come to Harvard. Christmas 1912 was the last year in which there were no complaints about the brevity of the recess...
When the College re-opened in September 1913 the CRIMSON conducted a small debate over the value of business administration courses, which an alumnus had urged Harvard to offer. But in November this was replaced with pleas to President Lowell to lengthen the Christmas recess. And University officials announced that the Class of 1917 was the first Harvard class in which the number of students who prepared at public schools outnumbered those who prepared at private schools...
Problem No. 1. Congressmen of both parties returning from the Easter recess expressed the same preoccupation. The war, said Democratic Representative Donald Irwin of Connecticut, "is on people's minds to such a degree that nothing else can compare with it." Several of the 3,800 participants in the women's conference were even more direct. "There's got to be an end to it soon," declared Adelia Marks of Ohio. Said Utah's Lucy Redd: "Viet Nam is the No. 1 problem with our women. A lot of them are going to vote against...
Restrained Frugality. Much of Congress' pre-recess energy was directed toward the hardening of party positions. The Senate's Republican minority last week mounted an impressive effort to defeat the proposed transfer of the Commerce Department's Community Relations Service to the Justice Department, fell short by a 42 to 32 vote that displayed unaccustomed G.O.P. solidarity. After barely failing to eliminate $12 million in rent-subsidy appropriations the week before, the Republican House leadership abandoned attempts at selective pruning, instead touted an across-the-board cut of 5% on all domestic appropriations. Unable to trim bills...