Word: chambers
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...more teachers, to double the number of children eligible for subsidies to the tune of $21.7 billion dollars and to increase federal medical-research spending. In fact, the list goes on to include a host of other, somewhat costly social service programs. Both sides of the House chamber applauded...
...unfamiliar source. In the residence, his brother Roger, no stranger to problems of addiction, handed him a silver dollar their grandfather had given their mother. Virginia Kelley carried it throughout her life as a good-luck charm. Clinton slipped it into his pocket as he walked into the House chamber...
...middle of town. During the 3 1/2 years of Starr's Whitewater probe, hundreds of people there have dealt with Starr through criminal trials, testimony at the downtown federal courthouse--where critics of the independent counsel have taken to calling the grand jury room "the Starr Chamber"--or in meetings at his West Little Rock offices...
...Robert D. Levin, Robinson professor of the humanities, presented the first lecture of Literature and Arts B-54, "Chamber Music from Mozart to Ravel," for a second time to a crowd of several hundred...
Today it is Lotto's strangeness that enchants--or, more precisely, the way he assimilates strangeness into naturalism. The show includes what must surely be the most peculiar image of the Annunciation ever painted. We're looking into the Virgin's chamber. She is in the foreground, looking girlish and distraught, facing you and throwing up her hands as though she were appealing for help. And why not? The angel, bearing the news that God has just impregnated her (you can see God in the background, as invasive and patriarchal as could be), seems to have fairly burst into...