adjournment

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Adjournment would not have added anything, an adjournment would have been there and when the adjournment was over we would still have been drifting toward suspension.

From The Guardian • Sep. 10, 2015

Adjournment was then taken "as a further mark of respect" to deceased members.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ala. Towards Adjournment President Roosevelt discovered last week that it was much easier to call Congress into special session in March than it was to send it home in June.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adjournment was in the air and Congressmen were itching to get back home for some electioneering.

From Time Magazine Archive

Had the Motion for Adjournment been accepted, he would, in accordance with usage, have opened the ball when the House met again once more, fresh, and in the mood to listen.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891 by Various