Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the attack, piloting his own plane, with 34-year-old Colonel Frederic H. Smith Jr. (one of Admiral Ernest J. King's numerous sons-in-law) as observer. Colonel Carmichael was pleased as punch with his first big raid. Said he: "I had what amounted to a grandstand seat at the Yankee Stadium." Early next morning Colonel Carmichael's flyers visited Rabaul again, dropped 40 more tons on its supply dumps, warehouses, machine shops, barracks and jetties...
Seats for the Freshmen are located, regardless of House or Dormitory along the track at the bottom of the grandstand, or up near the colonnades. If the student wishes to take a girl to a football game he can apply for a certain game using one of his season's tickets and purchasing another...
...Here I Go." With a grandstand seat on the bridge of a warship, the New York Times's Foster Hailey watched the battle, listening to the disjointed radio talk of the young U.S. pilots at the scene of action...
Washington reporters still remember his campaign speech at the Fair Grounds in Hagerstown, Md. The grandstand was packed, the open speaker's platform surrounded by newsmen and telegraphers. But as Knox stood up to speak, lightning flashed, thunder rattled and rain fell in streams. The public-address system went dead; telegraph lines were washed out, everybody around the platform broke for cover. All but Knox: he stuck it out in the deluge as long as he could stand it, soaked to the skin, reading doggedly through his manuscript, grinning, gesturing. Few could hear...
...late, only after a long struggle with censors. Shipped, against his will, in an old rattlebox of a ship named only with the number 13, he discovered too late that she was merely a transport for reserve tanks. He sat fuming offshore while his fellow correspondents moved up to grandstand seats, consoled himself by drinking brandy with the ship's doctor...