Word: lecterns
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...three Klappermeisters and two guests took turns ringing the other smaller bells, which are connected by wires to a lectern next to Mother Earth...
...After watching Dave’s reading, after watching him kick his coat against the lectern, carve out a pair of breasts in the air with his hands, pick at a piece of tape on the stand at least once every five minutes for the duration of the reading…I came away feeling like I knew the guy much more than the other authors I’ve seen this fall,” said Ryan M. Riley...
...That newly responsible attitude was on display on Oct. 12, when Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing chatted on the phone with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell about the U.N.'s role in postwar Iraq. China traditionally used its permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council as a lectern for delivering anti-Western rhetoric and to protect its own narrow interests. But in his phone conversation, Li reiterated the need for everyone, including the U.N., to work on rebuilding Iraq?a break from the past, when China would have sniped from the sidelines about "American imperialism" as it did during...
That realization, she says, led her to the lectern tonight. Weiss gazes down at the Torah scroll and chants, "Kol y-may neez-ro" ("Throughout his term as Nazarite"). That portion of the Scripture is about a group of ancient Jews (Nazarites) who, though not born into a priestly class, find their way to holiness through personal effort. A little later on, in a speech, Weiss explains, "I feel somewhat like a Nazarite tonight...
...stomach and urinary ailments were a daily distraction." He was taking codeine sulfate and procaine for his pain, penicillin for his infection, cortisone for his Addison's and so on. His back was killing him--the steroids had been weakening his spine. "Something as simple as bending over a lectern to read a speech caused him terrible pain. Out of sight of the press, he went up and down helicopter stairs one step at a time...