Word: podium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, there was winning the gold medal," she says. "There were so many of us, we did it right after the game without a podium. We all stood in a line, and they gave us our medals. I've never felt so patriotic in my life. Everybody on our team cried...
Just after 9:15 p.m., Capuano strode to the podium to the strains of "Taking Care of Business," his wife and two sons...
...Forum is a "podium" for "policy-makers and leaders in the community," Sargent says...
...midafternoon in a windowless room in an office building south of the San Francisco airport, and the man once known as Meathead is perspiring. His beefy hands gesticulate and then clutch the podium as he confides his life story. "Twenty years ago," he says, "I had a tough time in my life. I got divorced. I went into therapy. Now I'm doing O.K. I have three kids, a good job." Pause. "A nice suit." The audience laughs on cue, and the former Meathead plunges on. "But the early experiences I had as a child directly affected how I functioned...
...deception, but I just didn't want to believe [Clinton] had the capacity to deceive." No doubt his new bosses in the private sector will appreciate that kind of loyalty. The drollest of press spokesmen may claim to feel "free at last" after three years on the White House podium -- but part of him, it seems, will never leave...