Word: podiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...These are work sessions," Dukakis, the host of the conference, emphasized from behind his lighted podium at the opening press conference. "We've cut out a lot of the frills. For example, there's no state dinner this year." The small room was humming with anxious reporters from places as far from Massachusetts as the Detroit Free Press. ABC News "action-cams" were rolling away full crank while floodlights bleached the stage, which was conveniently set up for the omniscient eyes of television news...
...orchestra he will now head. He is an inventive programmer who likes little-known American works and singles out the less popular symphonies of the major composers. Slatkin's weakness, musicians feel, is his tendency to skim the surface of music and his awkwardness on the podium. Still, he and St. Louis know each other intimately and should grow together...
...distinguished elder of the Democratic Party. Throughout, R.F.K.'s opponents are made to look asinine or worse. Hubert Humphrey "chirruped." On the hustings in 1968, Kennedy is consistently praised for his ability to rouse mass audiences to a pitch of righteous frenzy; Lyndon Johnson, meanwhile, "pounded the podium and shouted about the war." At Martin Luther King's funeral in Atlanta, Kennedy was asked by an English friend where President Johnson was. "Kennedy observed, without bravado, that lack of physical courage kept him away." It is hard to decide which is more offensive, Kennedy's insult...
...army's favorite, with 23%. The runoff election, expected in the fall, promises to be a close one, but the real wonder is that Roldós has been allowed to campaign at all. He is the protégé of Assad Bucaram, a podium-pounding founder of the CFP, whose threatened accession to the presidency prompted the 1972 military coup. Yet Junta Leader Alfredo Poveda has repeatedly promised to respect the election results. If he does, it will mark a step forward for Ecuador, which has averaged a new government every two years since 1830, when...
...courthouse, Mississippi Grand Dragon Douglas Coen, a shipping executive from nearby Saucier, tells the crowd, "The Klan is here today, it was here yesterday, and it will be here tomorrow." Applause. "The Klan will be here forever!" Coen screams, and a few spectators hoot. Wilkinson takes the podium and is saying the KKK is basically a Christian organization when a white man yells, "You symbolize hatred! How can you call yourselves Christians?" Suddenly the crowd rolls forward as several Klansmen rush the heckler. The police grab him quickly. A local newspaperman is arrested too, for taking pictures of the arrest...