Word: chambers
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...brutal that in 1951, 31 prisoners cut their Achilles tendons in protest. But today, thanks to a federal lawsuit and changes in prison leadership, the mood is about as upbeat as it can be in a facility that boasts watchtowers, razor-wire fences and a lethal-injection chamber...
...evening, which began with a soprano performance of Bach, concluded with Henry Purcell's "Come Ye Sons of Art Away," performed by The Centenary Chamber Orchestra; accompanying singers Pamela Murray, David Clegg, David Walker and Stephen Hermes; and the Harvard University Choir...
Following an introductory talk by Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, poets Seamus Heaney, John Ashberry and Jorie Graham will read selections from their work. The evening will end with "Come Ye Sons of Art" by Henry Purcell, performed by the University Choir and the Centenary Chamber Orchestra...
...improve the lives of the city's foundering African Americans. He has no delusions that he can wipe out the hunger and poverty that haunted his own youth; his attempt last summer to initiate a modest on-the-job-training program for inner-city youths died in the local Chamber of Commerce. He feels scorn for blacks who flee poverty only to forget those they left behind. "[Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas talks about being from Pinpoint, a really rundown area of Savannah, but to my knowledge he has never been back," says Marshall. "Why doesn't he come back...
WHEN THE OLD SOUTHERN RACISTS FILIBUSTERED A civil rights bill, they would serve up fatback inanities to an almost empty Senate chamber--homily grits to obstruct the hours...