Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Rhee devised an omnibus security law that opponents, including the bar association, said was so loosely drawn that it could be used to silence all political protest. In a desperate effort to block the bill, 80 Assemblymen of the opposition Democratic Party barricaded themselves in the Assembly chamber for six days...
...charged the Assemblymen. A tangle of fighting, cursing men rolled on the floor or tumbled over desks, chairs and other writhing bodies. Park Soon Chun went down from a blow to the jaw. One by one, bleeding and still struggling, the sit-down strikers were hauled from the chamber and down the corridors, past jeering, pro-government Assemblymen of the Liberal Party. Eight had to be sent to the hospital...
...rambling, yellow-walled palace at Rabat, red-liveried Negro bandsmen of the royal "Black Guard" beat a tattoo and blared fanfares. Eleven men filed through the palace courtyard, up a marble staircase and into an ornate chamber reeking of incense. There, seated on his gilt and brocaded throne, King Mohammed V last week welcomed the members of Morocco's fourth government in less than three years of independence...
...connection, Dali thinks, with the medievalists' view of angels, which could light in hosts upon the point of a pin. His new canvas relates to both concepts. Seen close, it does dissolve into pure abstraction-as abstract, say, as the goings-on in a physicist's cloud chamber...
Last week, after Glatman pleaded guilty and waived a jury trial, grim-faced Judge John Hewicker studied the photographs and other evidence, sentenced the photographer to San Quentin's gas chamber. Said the court: "There are some crimes so revolting that the only proper punishment is the death penalty." Said unconcerned Shutterbug Glatman: "I think my actions justify that. I knew this is the way it would...