Word: grandstands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington press corps has long since learned that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara regards reporters somewhat as a general looks on junior officers: they have a job to do, and they must have access to the top brass-but only through channels. Last fortnight, when McNamara marched into a grandstand to watch some Army war games at Wedgefield, S.C., reporters were forbidden to follow-and like good soldiers they obeyed...
Continuing, Brown taunted Nixon for having White House ambitions. "The top man for the opposition," he said, "is letting quite a few bounce off his glove. His problem is he doesn't know the ballpark. He has his mind and his eye on a grandstand about 3,000 miles east of here. And he's finding out you make a lot of errors when you try to play two games at once. He wants the people of California to turn Sacramento into a private bullpen so that he can start warming up for a second chance in another...
...spite of the cold weather, Springfield managed to fill the small grandstand with an enthusiastic crowd, which included a small but vocal group of hecklers. When Crimson catcher Dick Diehl dropped a pitch, the fat little Springfield bat boy yelled, "Hey, frog, you slimy, slidey, goofy thing...
...current flap over the sudden awakening of these men to the un-American nature of their clubs seems to smack more of the old grandstand play than of any enlightenment...
...over the country, Ghanaians were sweeping dirt under the Queen's welcome mat. In Accra, battalions of laborers patched the city's potholed streets and covered over open drainage ditches. Thousands of schoolchildren practiced curtsies before the empty, 15,000-seat grandstand in the huge new Black Star Square. Arches of Ghana's red, yellow and green national colors went up over all the major streets, and telephone poles sprouted five-pointed Ghana stars in colored lights. Orders went out to all cities for Ghanaians to break out paint to make their premises presentable...