Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first few chapters are a capsule history of the House which are badly written and often inaccurate (e.g. "the Senate was known as the 'upper body' possibly because it met in a chamber on the second floor above the House"). The general point of the history is that the House was better off when it had strong leadership...
...Together--Collins pacifying, convincing, gently forcing; and Logue pushing, sometimes so hard and with so little grace that critics have come to regard him as a tin-horn Robert Moses--they formed an alliance for progress with Boston's major business and civic leaders--Charles Coolidge, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Gerald W. Blakeley Jr., head of the real estate management firm of Cabot, and Forbes; and James McCormack Jr., vice-president of MIT and an active force in the Chamber of Commerce...
Last week the reservation came under fire from another organization-and a surprising one at that: the normally conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce. By a vote of 174 to 82, the Chamber, at a meeting in Washington, called for repeal of the Connally Reservation. Said the Chamber: "Nations should settle their disputes by peaceful means, depending on law with justice rather than force, including acceptance of the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice without the so-called 'Connally Reservation...
...view of Convention Delegate William A. Haugsted of El Monte, Calif., who led a spirited floor fight against the resolution: "The Chamber is veering away from the principles it has long believed in. The world is not ready for this yet." But Christian Science Monitor Editor in Chief Erwin Canham, who is a past president of the Chamber, expressed the majority's overriding view. American businessmen, he explained, have a greater stake than ever before in world trade, and are increasingly coming around to the idea that "progress in the direction of a world law system is sound...
...shredded by Ives, run through a wringer of dissonance and woven into his complex fabric of rhythms, they were not easily recognized. In the first movement, for example, the doom-laden theme in the basses sounded against a background of Nearer, My God, to Thee, softly played by a chamber ensemble isolated at the rear of the orchestra. Then the violins joined in with The Sweet Bye and Bye, intertwined with clashes of brass and drums and another hymn sung by an 18-voice chorus. The second movement, beginning with a blaring Marching Through Georgia, erupted into a cacophonous frenzy...