Word: podium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...floor itself was rigged up to look like an unsophisticated T.V. game show. Red, white, and blue bunting hung everywhere. It crawled up poles and over balconies and spawned innumerable small American flags. A big blue curtain hung at the back of the podium with brassy gold letters spelling out "We the Democrats of the United States." Red and white box-shaped signs proclaiming the names of the different delegations matched the red and white phone banks and harmonized well with the lines of blue-cushioned chairs...
...least of this film's achievements lies in its making real some of those possibilities. As a result of the exposure the film has given her, Brico has received one firm, and several tentative, offers of conducting engagements. For Antonia Brico to be given back her podium after so many hungry years would be justice of the most poetic sort...
...during Italy's occupation of his country. In any case, last week's events clearly marked the end of the public career of the tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) monarch who won the world's heart 38 years ago when he stood on the podium of the League of Nations in Geneva, begging the world's powers to help him oust Mussolini's troops from Ethiopia. "God and history will remember your judgment!" he warned the delegates...
Though he had little chance of being nominated, Rocky made a gallant fight against Goldwater, culminating in an appearance at the G.O.P. convention that many think was his finest moment in public life. While right-wingers hurled abuse at him, he stood unruffled on the podium, refusing to budge until he was allowed to speak. "Ladies and gentlemen," he reminded his tormentors, "this is still a free country...
Somber Mood. Indeed, the solemnity of a presidential abdication masked the hostility that many felt on both sides. Newsmen studiously avoided gloating, and neither Nixon nor his aides renewed their old attacks on the press. Within two hours of the resignation speech, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler went to the podium of the White House briefing room for the last time to praise the "energy" and "intelligence" of the startled reporters before him. Ziegler had become the unhappy symbol of White House deception, and his paean to the press drew a few titters. But there was none of the rancorous repartee...