Word: podium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back on the podium for the first time since a serious operation in December put her throat out of commission. She was nervous at first, opening with two sitting ducks, Exactly Like You and Keep It a Secret. These first numbers she hit casually and with a pronounced beat, just warming up. A voice from the floor asked for some bop. Ella gave the nod to her piano man, Hank Jones, and the audience knew that this was still the old Fitzgerald...
What is the head of a defeated U.S. party? He has no constitutional standing, as he has in Britain. Unless he happens to be also a party leader in Congress, he has no podium from which to speak. Unless he happens to be governor of a large state, he has no nucleus around which to group organizational strength. The party national committees have little or no influence on the party's Congressmen. Stevenson would continue to make an admirable spokesman for his party, but in the nature of the case a spokesman is not needed unless or until...
Another infrequently seen notable, who had missed the last seven anniversary parades, also appeared: Joseph Stalin easily climbed 40 steps to the podium atop Lenin's tomb, looked hale as he saluted the crowd but said nothing. The parade lasted only 25 minutes: the usual air show was weathered out, and only old-model tanks and rocket guns were displayed. Explanation: those who wage cold peace like to keep their hot weapons out of sight...
...translucent glass strips. A long ramp leads up to the 2,170 seat Assembly hall. Along the walls are banks of transla tors' booths set in strips of gilded South American mahogany. Two vivid, swirling murals by France's Fernand Leger flank the hall, and over the podium will shine rows of plaques bearing the seals of the 60 United Nations...
...Boston. Elected president of the House a second time by the church convention, Dean Sprouse had just finished his acceptance speech ("One great job . . . is to try to push this world a little bit nearer to the Kingdom of our Lord, Jesus Christ") and turned away from the podium, when he collapsed on the platform. Doctors were called from the audience, and the dean's wife and daughter hurried to the stage. Minutes later, as the Rt. Rev. Edward Welles, Bishop of West Missouri, spoke a final prayer, Dean Sprouse died...