Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next, Johnson went to the President's Room of the Capitol, a small but ornate room with a large gilt chandelier near the Senate chamber. It was in that room, 104 years before to the very day, that President Lincoln had signed a bill freeing slaves forced into the service of the Confederacy (the famed Emancipation Proclamation came 17 months later). To sign the voting rights bill, President Johnson used 50 pens, squiggling a tiny portion of his signature with each. He handed the first pen to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the second to Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen...
...iniquities of Papandreou's 17 months in office, Papandreou simply ordered his supporters to stay in an anteroom. The infuriated leader of the right-wing Na tional Radical Union, whose 99 Deputies were ready to vote for Novas, an nounced that unless Papandreou sent his men into the chamber his own party would also boycott the debate...
Matter of Faith. At home, Frei faced more immediate problems. Though his Christian Democrats hold a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, he lacks control in the Senate. And last week the balky Senate threatened Frei's whole reform program, including his plan for "Chileanizing" the copper industry by buying into U.S. copper companies. Still, Frei hoped to use the profits of his trip as a lever on the Senate. "The world believes in and hopes for what is happening in Chile," he said last week. "It has faith in our country." It remained to be seen whether...
Among themselves, singers are naturally divided. Soprano Birgit Nilsson has referred to a tenor partner as "having a resonance chamber where his brain used to be." Metropolitan Opera Soprano Teresa Stratas takes a feminine view: "Stupidity, no. Egomania, yes. Tenors seem stupid because they are so fully absorbed in themselves. Sopranos -they all have to be pretty smart cookies to have gotten where they are." Tenor Richard Tucker, in a cheerily frivolous reaction that goes far to refute the thesis, comments: "Since tenors usually carry their fat elsewhere, you can be sure they are not fatheads. And besides, the mere...
...Monday, marchers will "walk towards the Capitol with the intention of convening the Assembly in the chamber of the House of Representatives." Spokesmen explained that the demonstration will "serve as a symbol of the desire of the people of the world to express their opposition to the Vietnam war in a democratic fashion...