Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over." From the first moments of a marathon drama that lasted for more than a week, the short, balding, beak-nosed Martinet was the indispensable man. With him in the lead, the men explored the "room" in which they were trapped: a 144-ft.-long by 15-ft.-high chamber that was cold and damp, its floor under water. There was no food; yet, thanks largely to Martinet, the miners resisted panic, began tapping with their picks on the cavern wall...
William F. Russell, visiting professor of Music, will conduct. The major work on the program is Bruckner's Mass in E Minor for eight-part chorus and wind orchestra. A small chamber choir will offer a group of motets, and the full chorus will sing Purcell's anthem, "My Heart is Inditing," accompanied by a string ensemble with harpsichord continuo...
...mischief, Churchill loved the House. When German bombs gutted it in 1941, Churchill stood amid the war-torn rubble for five minutes, tears running down his cheeks, then turned to an aide. "This chamber must be rebuilt-just as it was," he said quietly. At war's end, he laid the cornerstone...
Finally, former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who after 40 years in the House was also ending his parliamentary career, rose to speak to the hushed chamber: "The life of the man we are today honoring is unique. The oldest amongst us can recall nothing to compare with it. The younger ones among you, however long you live, will never see the like again...
Status Secured. Addressing a nearly empty Senate chamber on an April day, Goldwater, "with the deepest sorrow," launched into a long denunciation of the Republican Administration's economic policies. He was "shocked" by Ike's "abominably high" $71.8 billion budget, which, he declared, "subverts the American economy because it is based on high taxes, the largest deficit in history, and the consequent dissipation of the freedom and initiative and genius of our people...