Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What really hurts is that I've got 48 more weeks left, and between the end of summer session on Aug. 20 and the fall session on Sept. 15, things are going to be a tighter fit than my wedding ring. A month ago I could see $80 coming...
...session long, McCarran had bottled up in his Judiciary Committee the liberalized D.P. bill which the Administration was determined to push through before adjournment. Under the pretense of looking into subversive aliens in the U.S., McCarran had run a one-man filibuster, playing back the undocumented allegations of such old Un-American Activities Committee favorites as Spy Queen Elizabeth Bentley, baying off onto the subject of spies in the U.N. secretariat. McCarran was in a hurry to admit only one set of immigrants: 250 sheepherders to solve a labor shortage in his own state of Nevada...
...people think that what U.N. needs most is divine guidance. Ever since its foundation, letters have poured in urging that U.N. open its sessions with a prayer. A nondenominational "prayer room" was proposed for U.N.'s new Manhattan headquarters. Bowing to the fact that U.N.'s members are of many different faiths (some are specifically atheistic), a special committee of the General Assembly last week dodged the explosive issue. It recommended merely that each annual assembly session be opened and closed with a minute of silence, which each delegate would be free to use for prayer, for meditation...
Meeting in joint session and behind closed doors last week, the Senate's Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees coldly informed the Administration that if the bill was to have any chance at all, it would have to be redrafted...
...tides of war sweep back & forth across the Alsatian plain. This week Strasbourg became the center of a great if still uncertain move to revive the dream of European union. In the central hall of Strasbourg's university, delegates from ten European countries assembled in the first session of the Council of Europe...