Word: pulpiteering
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...From the Pulpit. Lyndon Johnson himself seemed to sense the moment as he studied the faces that gazed at him. In the visitors' gallery were Lady Bird, Lynda (Luci stayed home to study), and their guest J. Edgar Hoover; on the House floor were scores of former colleagues, the Cabinet, Chief Justice Warren and four Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. Other faces were conspicuous for their absence. The entire congressional delegations of Mississippi and Virginia and a host of fellow Southerners had deliberately stayed away...
Addressing himself thus, Johnson was never more powerful. Other Presidents have lamented the plight of the Negro but have skirted the hard words necessary to describe the depth of the Negro's deprivation. But Johnson believes with Teddy Roosevelt that the Presidency is a "bully pulpit," and with Truman, who once said, "It is only the President who is responsible to all the people." And so, on the night before and straight up to the time he arrived at the Capitol, he dwelt deeply on his subject, dictating, philosophizing, penciling, revising, emphasizing. Now he was ready...
...championships, was offered $4,500 to play for the New York Giants. He turned it down because ballparks had saloons in them and he was studying for the Presbyterian ministry. When a friend told him that he would never be a good public speaker, he decided to "trade the pulpit for the athletic field, and make the young men of America my ministry." In 1892 he took over as the University of Chicago's athletic director at a salary of $2,500 a year, plus an associate-professorship - thus becoming the first coach ever to gain faculty status...
Letkiss has already been blasted from the pulpit in Munich, and because of an incipient Asian-flu epidemic in Europe, has been denounced by doctors as a germ-spreading menace. Even the amateur sociologists have weighed in. "Now the solitary dancer, surrendering entirely to the beat, communes not only with the partner but with the entire group of revelers," says Dance Instructor Gertrude Schmidt. "Letkiss culminates in the kind of intimacy that previously would have shocked everyone...
Free, for a While. Once pollination is over, the insect is usually permitted to fly free, if only to be victimized by another flower. One erect and fleshy trap flower lets its prisoner fall out by merely drooping its blossom downward. The male part of the jack-in-the-pulpit allows mosquitoes to escape by opening a small hatch. But the mosquito had better be alert; its otherwise identical female part has no such escape hatch...