Word: podium
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Although Brokaw delivers the nightly news with stony-faced seriousness, he regaled students with a string of jokes yesterday when he took to the podium in Tercentenary Theatre as the keynote speaker in the annual Class Day festivities...
When Tom Brokaw takes to the podium as the keynote speaker in this afternoon's Class Day festivities, the eyes of many current and future world leaders will be upon...
...last year, he strode to the podium of the Old Wardroom dining hall at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, to inspire the 118 cadets of Bravo Company and their guests with tales of Coast Guard glory. Aiming to start on a light note, Blanchard promised to "dispense with the political correctness" and opened with several risque jokes as guests finished their strawberry-covered cheesecake. Blanchard said he had seen a cadet's fiance wearing a brooch featuring maritime signal flags. Blanchard's joke: "She said the flags meant, 'I love you.' They really said, 'Permission granted...
...their reputations and a numbing to more important racial discourses (that both men have themselves written). For example, affirmative action has been so exploited that it has become the object of many jokes. In the "Black in America" issue, there is a cartoon of black politician standing at a podium; the caption reads, "And, if elected, I promise to put more black people in cartoons." Another features three aliens in a spaceship, one reading a memo, saying "It's from headquarters--we're not abducting enough blacks." These cartoons (and there are many more of them) demonstrate where the future...
...podium, though, Dole seems to resent having to stand up in front of everyone and pontificate, as if he, a man of some substance, had been reduced by forces beyond his control to acting like some sort of debate-team show-off. He says he's a doer rather than a talker...