Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picture is plastered on just about every wall in the land. His profile adorns Albania's monetary unit, the lek, and at meetings of the Communist Central Committee (most of whom are related to each other and to the boss by blood or marriage) Hoxha speaks from a podium decorated with a plaster bust of himself. Like his country, Hoxha is full of surprises. Instead of being a rough, tough mountain chieftain, he is a former schoolteacher and was the pampered son of a well-to-do Moslem merchant. Though he has the mentality of a brigand, his manners...
...Formula. At the center of it all-the 577 delegates and 200 staffers, 65 observers and 275 reporters, plus assorted wives and special guests-a stern, craggy Dutchman loomed over the Assembly like an orchestra conductor on a podium. Willem Visser 't Hooft is the prime professional of the international ecumenical movement, in which he has spent his entire working life, and the New Delhi Assembly is the crowning of his career, for he plans to retire some time before the next one-probably in Africa six years hence...
When the applause thunders at the end of a Berlin Philharmonic concert, Conductor Herbert von Karajan is not eager to step to the podium. Instead, he prefers to stand among the strings, his head bowed, a faint smile on his face, indicating by an occasional gesture of his hand that the credit belongs to the men of his orchestra. The applause has thundered almost continuously for the Philharmonic during the four-week U.S.-Canadian tour that ends this week, and few who recall the Philharmonic's visit to the U.S. six years ago are deceived by Von Karajan...
...State Dean Rusk, clutching a sheaf of intelligence cables, prepared to give the star a quick final briefing. Then the President of the United States arrived, trailing a funereal squad of black-suited aides; nine still photographers, as if on cue, frantically recorded the presidential progress to the podium. At the sides of the room, boxed behind glass, the television sound men put out their pipes. Onstage, television cameras zeroed in on their target. The reporters, the students, the stenographers all rose in deference to the star. It was exactly 4 o'clock in the afternoon. John F. Kennedy...
Next day Chou En-lai coolly accepted the challenge. Striding to the podium, he announced that Red China was a friend of the Soviet Union and of "all other countries in the Socialist camp, which extends from North Korea to East Germany, and from North Viet Nam to Albania." A scattering of applause was swiftly silenced when the nearly 5,000 delegates saw that Khrushchev and the other members of the Party Presidium were sitting motionless...