Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the bill has the support of a five-man majority of the council, it will probably not pass until the fall. The council holds its final session before a summer-long recess tonight...
...Vicious, who knows what it means? It is shocking, stomach-twisting, and if nothing else, it is some kind of self-glorification that Vicious and his followers need...the self-glorification he saw in old war documentaries when he was in grammar school, ripping out toilet seats during recess...
...Force can barely find enough planes to accommodate all the members of Congress heading for distant parts of the world during the Easter recess. House Speaker Tip O'Neill is leading one group to Ireland; House Whip John Brademas is taking another to the Soviet Union. Members of the House Narcotics Committee are on their way to sunny Colombia. So many Congressmen are traveling to China that a quorum call might just succeed in Peking. The Easter recess, in fact, is turning out to be considerably more lively than the session, which so far has set a record unmatched...
...AIAW has no leverage in the matter, Janus said, adding that although a demonstration will occur Sunday in Washington, it is "imprecise" strategically because Congress is presently in recess...
...first camp, was located at Baise in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, some 60 miles north of the Vietnamese border. At first sight, reported one of the English-language journalists present, Nigel Wade of the London Daily Telegraph, it resembled nothing so much as a busy secondary school during recess. Prisoners in Chinese-supplied blue suits and caps were playing soccer, badminton and tug-of-war. The food seemed plentiful and nutritious. There was no barbed wire or watchtower, and only one visible armed sentry, at the main gate. The only indication of confinement was a 6-ft.-high brick...