Word: semicircular
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...week to see how variegated the U.S. is. In the presiding officer's chair sat Hubert Humphrey, son of a Norwegian mother. Much in evidence were Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, whose parents hailed from counties Kilkenny and Limerick, and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, son of Germans. In the semicircular rows that arced to the rear of the chamber sat New York's Jack Javits, son of an Austrian and a Palestinian; Hawaii's Hiram Fong, whose parents were born in China; Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff, son of Poles; Rhode Island's John Pastore...
...explained DiLorenzo, who works behind a buzzer-opening locked door in a semicircular sanctum on the 64th floor of the Chrysler Building. He adds: "We like fast action-some days, if we're dealing with pros, five deals in one day. Knowing the product is what's important. Some people say I have an uncanny mind for next year's values...
Throughout the summer and fall, the great blue-and-white General Assembly hall had been under the rule of the jackhammer. The semicircular rows of gleaming oaken desks had to be rearranged to make room for the U.N.'s population explosion: 115 members this year, v. 99 in 1960 and 51 at the founding. To pare down the time it takes for all of the delegations to vote, the desks were fitted out with buttons connected to a pair of large electronic boards beside the podium-green lights will flash on for aye, red for nay, yellow for abstention...
...secret briefing room that rivaled the war room in Dr. Strangelove. There were flashing lights, whirring projectors and 9-ft.-high maps bristling with red pins. On one wall was an 18-ft. by 30-ft. colored map of Southeast Asia. On another, facing a semicircular table at which the key conferees sat, were multicolored lights positioning every vessel in the U.S. Pacific fleet and maps pinpointing Viet Cong supply areas, Soviet and Red Chinese ships and munitions dumps, and other strategic targets...
...chalky substance composed mainly of calcium carbonate, no bigger than grains of fine sand. In the space age, physiologists are learning much more about these otoliths (ear stones), which respond to forces of gravity or acceleration. Now otolith mechanisms are known to have an im portant function. The semicircular canals tell the brain when a man's position or posture is changing because of a turning motion. But it is the utricle that responds to acceleration, and the saccule to deceleration...