Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...books simply showed that the department was about to run out of money-with three months still to go in the fiscal year. Thus, while the House was still listening to Clarence Cannon's cries of bluff, Summerfield issued the orders that 1) eliminated, effective last week, all regular deliveries on Saturdays, 2) closed all Post Office windows on Saturdays, 3) drastically cut Post Office window hours on Mondays through Fridays, 4) limited downtown business-mail deliveries to two a day, 5) placed embargoes on nearly all third-class mail beginning next week...
...Egypt Herbert Norman (see HEMISPHERE); Ike tried to calm the Canadian uproar with words of sympathy. Nettling him also was continued congressional delay in an area where presidential prestige was at stake. After last autumn's Hungarian uprising, the President made outright and definite commitments to secure regular refugee status for about 25,000 Hungarians admitted to the U.S. as parolees. Warned Ike last week: "We have about exhausted the possibilities of the parolee method, and without some congressional action, we will certainly be handicapped." But on the mechanics of obtaining faster congressional action, the President mustered only...
...four days later into the platoon barracks, found Recruit Porter and slugged him. Last week at Parris Island, in the same courtroom where Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon had stood trial for the death march into the boondocks (TIME, July 30; Aug. 13), another court-martial convened. Lieut. Conroy, a regular officer, pleaded guilty to conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. After deliberating 50 minutes, a general court ordered him dismissed from the service...
...Socialist hootenanny in the St. Pan-eras town hall, Statesman Gaitskell cavorted like a regular chap, hurled himself with abandon into a rock 'n' roll session...
Love of Law. Twice a day they celebrated a solemn communion meal, with blessing of bread and wine. This, says Scholar Cross, was "a liturgical anticipation of the Messianic banquet" in the coming kingdom-a concept that was a common theme in the Judaism of the time. Another regular practice of the Essenes was baptism. On entering the community, individuals received a baptism on repentance of sins (unlike the later Christian practice, however, the Essene baptism was renewed each year and supplemented by continued daily ritual washings or lustrations...