Word: podium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grady works by organizing. In a show of strength in June, Grady took the podium away from the BRA during a hearing on the environmental impact of the power plant, and never gave it up, to the joy of about 150 antipower plant Mission Hill residents in attendance. Grady's feelings on the power plant are simple. He sees the battle lines drawn not against a pro-power plant faction but against those who want to turn his predominantly working-class neighborhood into an upper class research center. As he said at one hearing this summer...
Kissinger had been scheduled to speak himself, but was detained by the negotiations in the Middle East. Instead of delaying the speech, he had Moynihan take his place on the U.N.'s marble podium. Thus, there was no time for Third World delegates to launch the automatic barrage of anti-American complaints. With unusual attentiveness, the packed General Assembly listened to Moynihan; the silence was broken only by the rustling of paper as delegates, in unison, turned pages of copies of the text placed by the U.S. mission at every desk...
...conversion. There were even six Southern belles with hoop skirts and parasols to welcome the invader. Originally, Rocky was scheduled to address 200 people in the Mobile sports arena. But there were so many requests for invitations that the auditorium was filled to capacity (1,800). Rocky shared the podium with Wallace and treated him like an old friend. "I am honored to be in your presence," he told Wallace, and continued: "George and I didn't always agree on issues, but we always respected each other. We were the two [Governors] who always stood up for what...
...affirmative-action-induced paraphernalia, the goals and timetables and the government threats (usually rather hollow-sounding), Harvard has a reputation of unusual recalcitrance when it comes to hiring women. It's very easy to go through four years here without ever seeing a woman standing at the podium in a lecture hall, although you may encounter a female graduate student somewhere along the line...
With a few due compliments, she yielded the floor to Terry Sanford, a lanky grey-haired Democrat from North Carolina Sanford posed stiffly at the podium. Pushing honesty from his rail splitting brows to his log cabin tweeds. "I would like to quote from Abigail Adams. Do not put unlimited power in the hands of the husbands or we will be prompted to foment revolution. Well I hope that ERA passes. I'm not just offering you empty promises because throughout my political life what I've promised I've always kept. I would like to include in the Democratic...