Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oregon abolished capital punishment. As a result, the sentences of three prisoners awaiting the state's gas chamber were commuted by Governor Mark Hatfield to life imprisonment...
Organized just two years ago, the octet (four men, four women) sings fugues and preludes by vocally approximating the sounds of chamber-music instruments. Put to the swinging four-beat rhythm of string bass and drums, the sound is surprisingly engaging, with a distinctly joyous air about it. Their two albums, Bach's Greatest Hits and Going Baroque, have sold more than 250,000 copies and won for them this year's Grammy Award as the best new recording artists of the year. Last May they were imported for a presidential concert at the White House...
...black topcoat soft in the harsh lights. And as he orated to Massachusetts' industrialists, his language at once filled with references to deficit financing and the timeless rhetoric of a politician from the Northwest Territory, he seemed fully capable of standing in a crowded, dimly lit Senate chamber and delivering the reply to Hayne (no doubt as H. Horatio Humphrey...
...microbes that cause gangrene are of types that thrive without oxygen, he succeeded in killing the microbes by flooding them with oxygen. Since then hyperbaric conditions in the operating room have proved a godsend when treating infants with congenital heart defects. Working in an old and relatively primitive Navy chamber, Harvard's Dr. William F. Bernhard and his colleagues have now operated on 80 such infants and children, have had only one patient die during surgery...
...tank filled with swimming goldfish looked like any other pet-shop aquarium, but the hamster hopping about inside the tank raised more than a few eyebrows. Sealed in an air-filled chamber, the hamster was staying nicely alive in his underwater environment without the help of lines or pipes leading to the air above the surface...