Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Uriah Heep. Despite the ego-building assignments, there were inevitably frustrations and uncertainties. For the first session of the 89th Congress-the better part of 1965-Johnson wanted Humphrey to spend much of his time at the Capitol doing convoy duty on the passage of Great Society legislation. He had vast knowledge of the Senate and the issues, and excellent relations with many members of Congress. Yet Humphrey found, as Johnson had as Vice President, that his influence had largely evaporated. "I am in the club," as he put it, "but no longer a member." He had little to offer...
More from habit than necessity, the Democrats made a token effort to woo labor last week. Showing up for the final session of the construction trades union convention, Vice President Humphrey shouted buoyantly to the 4,000 delegates: "We Democrats need the labor movement. The President of the United States is your friend, and we are not going to let you down!" But even that ardent love call brought no more than a few tepid claps from the disgruntled labor leaders...
General Court's Joint Committee on Education had referred Harrington's the next annual session." Since Massachusetts legislative committees cannot "kill" bills, they use this device to remove a bill from consideration in the current session of the unsuccessful action Monday was an attempt to save the consideration by asking that it be substituted for the committee's report...
...students, most of whom are juniors, will enroll in the regular summer school session and live in college dorms. But they will receive special tutorials in addition to the normal summer school course work...
...permanent income as an opera escort and house pet. An American girl student offers love and even to take care of his frowsty digs. He refuses both, and his analyst gives him up as a bad job. By way of farewell to psychotherapy, Samuel S says: "This final session has given me the biggest insight of all. That if I am ever cured, I will never know it." The book ends with S in a state of collapse-nullity has been achieved...