Word: chambered
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...reassertion of the Senate's constitutional mandate to give "advice and consent" to all treaties and, by projection, to all U.S. foreign policies. Irritating as it may seem in times of crisis, the founding fathers intended that the Senate should act in just this way-as a chamber of deliberate counsel, second thoughts and extended debate, a guardian against rashness on the part either of the popularly elected lower House or of the President. The Senate has had its greater and its lesser days-and at any given time its current members usually suffer by comparison with the "giants...
...19th century novel-Ross, Birch, Caleb, Gordon, Norris, Hiram, Bourke, Lister, Spessard, Roman, Gale, Thruston, Claiborne, Winston, Leverett, Strom, Harrison. This assemblage is still magisterial in form if not in substance, still flinging its sounding periods into the stillness of the Congressional Record or the empty seats of the chamber, less magnificent in its manners and less admired for its oratory, indulgent of itself and critical of others, but serving its function-as challenge, check and, if need be, support to the U.S. presidency...
Tree of Sound. The Boston Symphony has hit upon a likely solution. As in every orchestra, many of the Boston musicians have tried to balance their heavy symphonic diet with doses of chamber music, slipping off like addicts in need of a fix to play where and however they can. The progressive Boston management decided that rather than discourage the practice, as some orchestras have done, it would cultivate it. The result is the Boston Symphony Chamber Players ("The Boschaps"), organized a year ago and made up of the orchestra's first-desk players. It is the first such...
Music provides the Schmidts with still another form of diversion. Maarten plays the violin, Corrie the piano, and both are fond of chamber music. Visiting astronomers and relatives are often pressed into chamber music recitals at the Schmidt home. "If I play," admits Schmidt, "it has to be in an intimate circle. Only my best friends can really stand...
...tunnel 4,850 ft. beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, explosions rumbled like artillery fire. Sweet-smelling dynamite and ammonium nitrate fumes poured into the tunnel from a cavern where some 30 to 40 tons of ore had just been blasted loose. In an immaculate, cement-lined chamber nearby, a hoist operator scanned two closed-circuit TV screens that monitor the ore buckets, make sure they are dumping properly into large collection bins. Above ground, at the end of the production process, refinery workers were pouring Brick No. 37,035-a 30-lb. hunk of solid gold worth...