Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fear that the reapportionment of state legislatures entirely on the basis of population would lead to their domination by "the bosses of the big-city political machines." Instead, Dirksen proposed, the voters in any state should be allowed to decide for themselves whether they wanted to elect one chamber on the basis of geographical or political subdivisions...
...white fox, dismounted and marched up the Royal Staircase past lines of tabarded heralds to the Royal Robing Room. Then, having donned the 18-ft. red velvet train, originally tailored for Queen Victoria and a 3-lb. jeweled crown, she mounted the throne in the jammed Lords' Chamber. "My Lords," murmured the Queen, "pray be seated...
...leaders a chance to bask in Selassie's reflected glory. Trinidad-Tobago's Prime Minister Eric Williams, who extended the original invitation to Selassie two years ago, kept his visitor visible and on the go, attending receptions, laying wreaths and setting cornerstones. In the small, ornate parliamentary chamber of the country's "Red House," Selassie pleased everyone by calling for closer ties between "the two great peoples" of Ethiopia and Trinidad-Tobago...
...With a ten-inch incision across his chest, DeRudder was hooked up to a heart-lung machine. And then, as five cameras recorded every step, the surgeons opened his left auricle. They replaced the diseased valve, but even this promised little. The left ventricle, the main pumping chamber, which does more than half the heart's work, was too badly diseased. Standing ready in the operating room was a team of doctors and engineers with the one device that might help: a "half-heart" to assist the left ventricle by partially bypassing it (see diagram). An instrument based...
Last week, in her 15th week of sneezing (a world record, so far as medical archives show), June Clark tried a different, long-distance-style therapy. Sent off by Bade County's Mayor Chuk Hall, she took her sinuses to Arizona-as the guest of Mesa's Chamber of Commerce and Jaycees, which have an understandable interest in promoting the curative powers of Arizona's supposedly pollen-free and allergen-free air. There, June still sneezed, but not so often...