Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally ratified by the Chamber of Deputies. the bill nationalizing Italy's electric power industry was about as urgent, economically speaking, as introducing a new type of pasta. Nearly 30% of Italian electric power was government-owned anyway; buying up the rest of the industry at prices profitable to the private owners was scarcely a creative economic move. Eventually it may bring cheaper electricity to the underdeveloped south, but only at the cost of higher rates elsewhere in the country...
...accounts for about 80% of all private foreign investment in Colombia, U.S. Ambassador Fulton Freeman decided to put the record straight. Over the next months, Freeman made a confidential survey of 90 big U.S. corporations doing business in the country. Recently, speaking before members of the Colombian-American Chamber of Commerce in Bogota, he presented the survey's findings...
Crawling through tunnels less than two feet high, three architects of the expedition made the first modern survey of the underground passages and the marble chamber, concealed deeply within the 200-foot high mound...
...Wickwar of Harvard took the first pictures of the royal burial chamber. The underground structures were discovered in 1853 by Spiegelthal, the German consul at Smyrna. Since then the tunnels leading to them have become clogged with earth and a dangerous fall of rubble has completely covered one chamber and spilled into the other. The one still accessible is built with astonishing precision out of marble blocks fitted together in razor-blade joins. Its huge ceiling blocks weigh several tons
...anonymity," he quickly turned to a much broader subject-Susskind. "I would like very much to go into politics." he said. President? "No Jewish person can be President of the United States. A Catholic just barely made it." Senator? Yes. "I'd like to go into that solemn chamber, and make some sense...