Word: lectern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Port Said last week -the ninth anniversary of Egypt's little Suez war with France, Britain and Israel. After parade's end, the crowd waited expectantly to hear whether President Gamal Abdel Nasser could top his performance of a year ago, when he pounded the lectern for the benefit of visiting Soviet Bigwig Aleksandr Shelepin and told the U.S. to go "drink the sea"-the Arab equivalent of "Go jump in the lake...
...first loud cheers of the afternoon came for 81-year-old Socialist leader Norman Thomas. Almost unable to see the crowd. Thomas pounded his arms rhythmically on the lectern and denounced "this monstrous war." Like other speakers, he called for a cease-fire and an end to the bombings of North Vietnam...
Standing at a lectern in the East Room of the White House, the President of the U.S. hefted his big fists and clenched them. "We're like a man in the ring," he said, assuming a pose and a phraseology he has been using a lot in private. "We're using our right and our left constantly." Out shot his right fist. That, he said, symbolized U.S. power. "I say to Secretary McNamara, 'You be sure that our men have the morale and have the equipment and have the necessary means of seeing that we keep...
...Four Strands. At Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa exercises the following day, Bundy the Arguer became Bundy the Articulator. Hunched over the lectern in musty, dusty Sanders Theater, he spoke without a text, only occasionally referred to notes written on a yellow legal pad in his cramped southpaw hand -a handwriting so small that his White House secretaries use magnifying glasses to read...
...those who frequently talk of negotiations and political settlement, and they believe this is the course we should pursue-and so do I," he said. "When they talk that way, I say welcome to the club. I want to negotiate. I would much rather talk than fight." Rapping the lectern with his knuckles, he demanded that Congress give him $700 million to meet further military requirements in Viet...