Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time crook with an attorney in attendance. For the suspect without a lawyer, however, arrest and detention are the most crucial phases of his entire case. In the intimidating atmosphere of a station house, vigorous police grilling often takes on all the aspects of a star chamber. "The trial," observes one jurist, "is too often merely a review of that interrogation." Even if the defendant later recants a confession in court, it is one man's oath against those of three or four detectives. A distinguished federal judge said recently: "We'll never be fully civilized until...
Preliminary Atomic Energy Commission investigations of Monday's shattering explosion at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator (CEA) indicate that the 95 gallons of liquid hydrogen contained in the bubble chamber were expelled safely by an emergency venting system and ignited harmlessly...
According to Dr. M. Stanley Livingston, director of the CEA, it now appears from external observations that the main force of the explosion was generated by the hydrogen in the filling system of the chamber rather than that in the chamber itself...
...dangerous liquid within the chamber was released as a gas by an ingenious venting system. Pressure on the liquid forced it down into a trap underneath the truncated conical chamber onto a mass of small copper pellets. Heat from the pellets quickly and safely changed the liquid to a gas, which flowed up a chimney, where it was harmlessly ignited...
...would think of those bones at bed time. We all became kind of fond of him," said Lynda Bird Johnson, 21, after spending ten days pecking away with trowel, whisk broom and dental pick to unearth a fragile, 700-year-old skeleton in a kiva (chamber) of an ancient Pueblo Indian settlement in wildest Arizona. Lynda roughed it with a team from the University of Arizona excavating near a place called Grasshopper. And while she was rolling that wheelbarrow around, guess what Sister Luci Baines was doing for wheels back in Washington: varooming through town...