Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner had the Senate ratified the nuclear test ban treaty than Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, rose before the chamber to push through the huge defense appropriations bill for fiscal 1964. "His timing was perfect," marveled a Defense Department official. "Having just voted for the treaty, the Senate was ready to prove that it was not about to dismantle the military strength of this country...
...next morning, Kennedy strode past pickets protesting the Birmingham church bombing (one sign read, "Mr. J.F.K., if Caroline and John Jr. had been among the six children murdered, would you still be talking?"), and into the vaulted, blue and gold Assembly chamber to deliver what had finally emerged as a sort of U.S. "State of the World" report...
...there was no slowing the celebration down. Gifts for the Fischer babies flooded Aberdeen. They ranged from cattle feed for the cows that Andrew Fischer now milks by hand for his five older children to baby shoes and a fur-trimmed coat for Mrs. Fischer. Through its chamber of commerce, Aberdeen decided to build a $100,000 house for the Fischers. And as the loot piled up, Income Tax Boss Mortimer Caplin reminded his agents that all such unsolicited gifts, for which the Fischers performed no service, were taxfree. But taxes would be due on a $75,000 Saturday Evening...
...identity card. When he applied to marry her, the authorities explained to him that as an Aryan he was forbidden to marry a Jew. He confessed the forgery and they were married. On Sept. 21, 1943 a Gestapo truck drew up to their home. Both died in the gas chamber at Auschwitz...
...cool, church-like auditorium with high stucco walls and an arched roof. In the audience sat 500 Mexico City high school girls wearing blue school uniforms. On stage were five Harvard students playing chamber music...