Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cluttered little Senate chamber where Clay and Webster had listened to the promulgation of James Monroe's chesty Doctrine 126 years ago, the atmosphere was tense. Every Senator but Louisiana's Allen J. Ellender was present...
...chamber was deathly still as the clerk began the roll call. The first, and critical, vote was on the reservation proposed by Senator Wherry, which would insist that the U.S. had no obligation to furnish arms to its new partners. It was defeated, 74 to 21. Two other reservations were knocked down. Then, by a majority of 82 to 13, the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty...
...Chamber 13. Early in 1946, a firing squad shot grim, contemptuous Jean Luchaire for treason. Several months later, Corinne, racked by dissipation and tuberculosis, was condemned to ten years' "national indignity." Last week in Paris, Otto Abetz was on trial for crimes he committed during the German occupation: com plicity in maltreatment of Jews and French officers, looting French art treasures...
...heat in tiny, suffocating Chamber 13 of the Palais de Justice matted the 46-year-old defendant's white mane, wreathed his wrinkled face in perspiration. Four years after the war, the narrative of Nazi evil retold in the courtroom roused no passion, fell back into forgetfulness. During his deft defense, Abetz mechanically professed Nazi theory, just as mechanically pleaded that he had always tried to mitigate Nazi practice. The sentence: 20 years at hard labor...
...breeze of Americana, "les craps" and "les girls" fluttered into the cream-colored Monte Carlo Casino one morning last week. Six bright, mascaraed beauties, "straight from the Wally Wanger Broadway shows" (the publicity handout said), bounced into a big, baroque Casino chamber, joined croupiers, cameramen and curiosity-seekers around the first crap table in the Casino's 71 years of existence. Blonde, white-suited Lillian Moore-"one of the 100 most beautiful girls in the world"-took the dice, shook them, blew on them, threw the inaugural roll...