Word: grandstands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Londoners were amused by the story of a Texas millionaire who, for a cabled $1,500, rented a Park Lane apartment for coronation week. A friend in London, sent to check on the apartment, reported back that its view was completely cut off by a grandstand. "Buy up the stand and tear it down," came the reply from Texas...
American pressure groups usually watch Presidential elections from the grandstand. Because they welcome a bipartisan membership, and because their lobbying must go on no matter which party is in power, they tend to be stingy with their endorsements. The only exception comes when, as in the case of labor unions this year, the group's issue is clearly the property of one party and not the other...
...been extremely successful in squelching legislation in the medical field for the last ten years. Perhaps it is this flush of victory that makes the group jump out of the grandstand and start campaigning. Undoubtedly, the AMA would feel safer with Washington Republican. Ever since it opposed Woodrow Wilson's proposal for extended small pox innoculation as "socialism," most of its targets have been Democratic proposals...
...time Ike got to the park, the grandstand was half empty, and the high-school bands-drawn from all over Dickinson County-were huddling in cars and under eaves, sodden and miserable. The television men urged Ike to talk from a dry room under the stands, but when he heard that half of his audience had stuck through the rain, he turned on his heel and splashed through the thick, black mud to the outdoor platform. A solicitous aide tried to shield him with a big umbrella, but Ike brushed it aside. Then he tossed away his broad-brimmed...
...trip to St. Louis. Last year, after effervescent Bill Veeck (rhymes with heck) bought the doormat Browns, things began to change. Using the showman stunts that brought fans out in droves when he owned the Cleveland Indians, Veeck shot off fire works before games, imported jitterbugs and contortionists, selected grandstand managers to help run the team, handed out free drinks, and even sneaked a midget into the Browns' lineup (he drew a base on balls...