Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORTUNATELY, the crowd wasn't in Gilligan's unenviable leadership position. Some of them sat there bored, complaining that the talk was "stale," or "phony." They would cop out when the V.C. did. Others, especially a group of McCarthy's ex-aides, stood near the podium, cheered wildly, made V-signals, and wore "Still With McCarthy" buttons. They were still in Oregon...
Fentress: You do get the feeling that Nixon's campaign is as carefully planned as the Normandy invasion, and often the price is a feeling of contrivance. When he was in Buffalo, his schedule read: "8:47 p.m. EDT-R.N. goes to podium. 8:49 p.m. EDT-applause subsides...
...Bernet. Then, as the bidding of Renoir's early master piece reached the million mark, he shifted from his representative, Manhattan Dealer Stephen Hahn, directly to Parke-Bernet's chairman, Peter Wilson, who relayed Simon's bids inconspicuously from behind a screen on the auction-room podium. "I had a hunch that it could have gone for as much as $2,500,000," said Simon afterward. He added: "I would not have paid that, but I would certainly have gone higher than...
...Adolf von Thadden, was forced to suspend a series of scheduled party rallies after some 1,500 students broke up his first appearance on the hustings in Bonn. Shouting "Get the Nazis out of here," the students drowned out Von Thadden's speech and chased him from the podium with tear gas. But despite the setback in Lower Saxony, most forecasts predict that in next year's West German general elections, the National Democrats will win at least 40 of the Bundestag's 496 seats...
...demonstrators booed when it was over. Then the booing unexpectedly peaked and suddenly the candidate was beaming behind his big bullet-proof podium, which covered all but his head and shoulders. His sympathetic listeners in the crowd, which crammed a grassy area of several city blocks, let out whoops of greeting which again reached higher than the catcalls...