Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manned the barricades against the Negro advance by voting against key civil rights bills. There was no question now that he was involved. In his address, he illuminated that involvement in a revealing statement by which he hoped history would judge him (see box). He strode from the chamber a changed man, confident in that hope, certain that he had launched the U.S. itself inexorably toward a new purpose...
Beyond this great chamber-out yonder-in 50 states are the people that we serve. Who can tell what deep and unspoken hopes are in their hearts tonight as they sit there and listen? We can all guess, from our own lives, how difficult they often find their own pursuit of happiness; how many problems each little family has. They look most of all to themselves for their future, but I think that they also look to each...
...desultory afternoon last week, New York's Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, 76, rose in the sparsely populated House chamber to perform a labor of love. Celler's task: to speak on his bill outlawing gerrymandering of congressional districts. It was a subject close to Manny Celler's old Brooklyn heart...
...subtropical north to the blustery Strait of Magellan, campaign banners straddled the streets and radios blared political slogans. Last week 10 million people went to the polls in what should have been a minor off-year congressional election. Only 99 of 192 seats were at stake in the Chamber of Deputies. But the election was far from routine, as Argentines demonstrated once more that the strongest force in Argentina's murky present is the ghost of its past: exiled Dictator Juan Domingo...
...even captured populous Buenos Aires province and the neighboring province of Cordoba, home of President Arturo Illia and a longtime stronghold of his People's Radicals party. Illia's party finished with only 27% of the vote and a total of 70 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. "We have shown," said one Peronista leader, "that we are No. 1. The decision of the people is clear...