Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pride of the Marines is more than a rostrum for liberal polemics. It is a good hard-hitting movie...
...speaker's rostrum strode Chief of Staff General Alexei Antonov. For the Red Army, for all war-weary Russians, and for Russia's Allies who are still at war, General Antonov had important news: by the end of the year, the Red Army's 13 oldest age groups, numbering undisclosed millions, would be demobilized...
...called his second press conference, argued quietly but earnestly that Russia asked only to delay the vote until Argentina's record could be studied. At a full session of the world conference that afternoon, Molotov stumped to the rostrum, quoted Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull on Argentina's recent sins against the Allies. But arguments did not count; the U.S., the Latin Americans, most of the Europeans had lined up against him. On the decisive vote, only Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Greece supported the Soviet Union. Many a delegate instantly wondered: would Molotov and his delegation take their beating...
...called his second press conference, argued quietly but earnestly that Russia asked only to delay the vote until Argentina's record could be studied. At a full session of the world conference that afternoon, Molotov stumped to the rostrum, quoted Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull on Argentina's recent sins against the Allies. But arguments did not count; the U.S., the Latin Americans, most of the Europeans had lined up against him. On the decisive vote, only Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Greece supported the Soviet Union. Many a delegate instantly wondered: would Molotov and his delegation take their beating...
People hoped for much, but expected a lot less, from the man with the powerful shoulders and crippled legs who stood before them, tightly gripping the rostrum, on that cloud-hung, windy March 4 in 1933. They had not voted for him; they had voted against Herbert Hoover. They knew him as a pretty good governor of New York, a man with a strong-chinned patrician face and the magic name of Roosevelt, a man with a broad Harvard accent and the wealthy, aloof heritage of Groton and Crum Elbow...