Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps Connecticut's unpredictable Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd just wanted to liven things up. He rose in the Senate chamber early one evening last week and demanded to know why his colleagues were preparing to recess, when it was only a little past 6 p.m. The Senate has been keeping Wall Street hours of late, he complained...
Based on the record of the 1963 Senate so far, Dodd had a point, but Dirksen still felt mortally wounded. "Mr. President," he cried, "I would be the last Senator ever to use the Senate chamber for a glorified wailing wall." It so happens, said Dirksen, that he and many others have a lot of chores to keep them busy. But "it may be that the distinguished Senator from the Nutmeg State does not have anything to do in his office." And if Dodd wanted an answer to his complaint about Senate inaction, Dirksen shouted, "I will answer the distinguished...
...point he arose to speak against Senators who proposed changes in the Charter. Cried he: "They know that the League of Nations was slaughtered in this chamber." Then he turned, pointed his glasses to the rear of the Senate and roared, "Can't you see the blood? There it is on the wall...
...original Polaris) and the A-2 are shoved to the sea's surface by compressed air-a process that requires heavy tanks and complicated valving. The A-3 starts on its flight when a small rocket motor is ignited and shoots hot gas into a water chamber. Part of the water turns to steam, and the gas-steam mixture pops the missile out of its submarine cell...
...first love was music. Even today, at 69, Julius Bissier plays the cello and loves chamber music. And the tiny, delicate paintings that he creates, small magical incantations of color, are in his fond word "songs...