Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member, including the chairman. Michigan's Romney refers to him as "the busiest man in the Senate," and the label fits. Much of his time goes into what he calls "our unseen work": the unheralded, rarely acknowledged chore of shepherding a bill through subcommittee, committee, and finally the full chamber...
...Harbor amusement park once attracted 200,000 visitors a year, now draws fewer than 30,000. So depleted are the ranks that outsiders have to be hired to operate the shabby House of David Hotel in downtown Benton Harbor. Sighs pigtailed Tom Dewhirst, 58, head of the Benton Harbor Chamber of Commerce: "Nothing new has happened around here in 30 years...
...courtlike Washington chamber last week, there began a hearing that very directly affects the fortunes of the world's biggest corporation and 2,840,500 investors. The Government's long-awaited investigation of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. was under way. For perhaps the next two years, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission will hear hundreds of witnesses and weigh tons of documents to determine what should be reasonable rates and profits for a company that is really a tolerated monopoly. Last week Bell got in first licks. Far from earning an excessive profit, argued Vice President...
...night there alone. His remorse was short lived: he was soon back with his new Queen, Marie-Louise, each with a separate wing. Last King of France to reside there was the bourgeois Louis Philippe, who raised a chuckle when he widened the bed in the Queen's chamber by a foot (overleaf) so that he and Queen Marie-Amélie could snuggle in together...
...telephones her dog Vladimir several times daily, just the sort of thing to alarm the security people. Doris ultimately proves that she is not an enemy agent. She runs amuck in a remote-controlled speedboat, does battle with a ferocious robot vacuum cleaner and sprawls aloft in an antigravity chamber...