Word: podium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bodies Speak"; a speaker claimed KPFA had broken the story of a UFO cover-up. Groups' representatives thrust leaflets at each other, signed each other's petitions and joined each other's mailing lists and donor rolls. Speakers who were black, Native American, Puerto Rican and gay, took the podium to tell the crowd how KPFA had spread the word for their movements when no one else could, or would. One woman shouted, "We're winning! And we're winning because of our unity...
...message candidate, and the label was beginning to stick. (Sensitive to the charge, Bush half seriously asked his finance chairman if there was any way "to slow down" the flow of contributions.) And to make matters worse, Bill Clinton was trying to provoke Bush from the presidential podium, archly recalling how in 1991 he began his presidential bid by telling voters exactly what policies he would pursue. Pressed by a reporter in Ames, Iowa, to say when he planned to start talking substance, Bush pursed his lips and suggested he wouldn't be rushed: "There's a pace...
...lengthy speakers list included local politicians, union representatives, students and alumni. State Rep. Alice K. Wolf (D-Cambridge) stepped up to the podium to emphasize that the issue of a living wage goes far beyond Harvard...
...birthday celebrations went on with kids and grandkids and friends and entertainers and power seekers from all over the world. Wherever the Bushes congregated, they were rarely in family huddles; but when you watched, they seemed always to be connected--with a gesture, a glance, a joke from the podium, the President laughing at whatever lame jest one of the kids made, Barbara surveying everybody's manners...
...Seton took the presidential podium, it seemed that every council meeting became a tug-of-war between political activism and providing student services--and it was doubtful that the two at the helm had anything to say about...