Word: flooring
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...annual speech on the State of the Union, the floor of the newly redecorated House chamber was crowded to capacity with Senators and Representatives. Members of the diplomatic corps trooped in, followed by the Cabinet. The U.S. public watched through the peering lenses of television cameras, listened through a row of radio mikes...
...Congress old Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tried loyally to answer a five-hour Republican barrage, but in doing it, he was forced to double back on his own statement of seven days before that it would be "wise" to defend Formosa. Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry, the party's on-tap isolationist spokesman, said that Britain's recognition of Red Peking afforded "even more compelling reasons for cutting this [ECA] spending to support British socialism...
...Paris. The sun glinted on the guardsmen's silvery helmets and on the glossy black hides of their horses. While they held aloft their sabers in salute, while trumpets blared and drums rolled, an officer unveiled a bronze plaque on the apartment house wall: On the fifth floor of this building in July 1940 under the direction of the fervent patriots Lange, called "Alcyn," and Salve, called "Jean de Sylves," was born the first armed resistance movement, the Wolves of France . . . Erected by the Wolves of France to their honorable dead...
...students living above the ground floor of non-fire proof dormitories (Grays, Hollis, Holworthy, Matthews, Stoughton, Thayer, and Weld) will report to the Indoor Athletic Building between January 9 and January 18 for practice in the use of fire ropes...
Ropes identical to those provided in the dormitories will be hung from the balcony on the fourth floor of the Indoor Athletic Building. Each man will lower himself twice from the balcony to the basketball floor (12 feet...