Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning, Britain, France and the three Benelux nations will compose the Council. Others will be invited to join. The Council will consist of government ministers meeting in secret and a "consultative body" meeting in public. The body of ministers will control the agenda of the lower deliberative chamber, and in general will exercise the real power...
Warm afternoon sunshine slanted through the windows of Kingston's 19th Century stone House of Representatives building. In the tiny, paneled chamber, the Opposition representative from East Westmoreland was attacking the land-development policy of His Majesty's Executive Council. In the course of his speech, he referred to Jamaica's Minister of Communications as "good to twist" (Jamaican for corrupt...
...Goodbye." The speaker mumbled a ruling. "Mr. Speaker has ruled that the word is in order," snapped Bustamante, glowering at the member from East Westmoreland. "There is only one twisted person here. You. Goodbye." As he strode from the chamber, he called on his party's eight representatives to follow him. All except Education Minister Jehoida Augustus McPherson...
Klieg lights threw a hot white glare over the green chamber in Canada's House of Commons last week. For the first time, newsreel cameramen were allowed into the crowded galleries to film the opening of a session of Parliament...
...concerts for U.S. troops during the war, he put away again for a rest. And he had pulled out some new ones, like the Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Medtner works that had Manhattan concertgoers holding their breath last week. He had also found plenty of time to play chamber music with his good friend and neighbor, Artur Rubinstein, and with Vladimir Horowitz when he dropped in-not to mention an occasional jam session, with Heifetz rolling out such items as Gut-Bucket Gus and Jim Jives on the piano. As for his popular composing (When You Make Love to Me-TIME...