Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, four days after Franklin Roosevelt died, the new President of the United States went before the Congress. The applause was deafening as he entered by the center door, and it increased as he mounted the rostrum...
...State Capitol in Columbus. On furlough for the duration of the Legislature, he was still in uniform, still wearing his Good Conduct Medal, two bronze battle stars. Starting his fourth term (he was first elected at 22, was Republican whip last session), he went to the Speaker's rostrum, made a speech about what a great job U.S. soldiers were doing overseas. His colleagues rose and cheered...
...rostrum stumbled Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, the Catholic professor of history who had led the Resistance movement. Like France, he was sick-with grippe or from an overdose of medicine. He was speaking to Moscow, but his voice was scarcely audible. Back benchers cried: "Louder! Louder!" Bidault mumbled: France has no intention of taking part in any anti-Russian "western cordon.. . . We certainly want an alliance in the west but we also want an alliance in the east of Europe." Then he cut his remarks short, slumped down like an old man. On the Government bench, General Charles...
...identified himself with the war. He is now somewhat disliked by a few younger writers for his pomposity and his airs; he is something of an eccentric - writes standing up, for instance, with his manuscript on an inclined chest-high table, like a speaker's rostrum...
...below) laid a firm floor under British internal policy. Three days later the Conservative Government turned to foreign affairs. In two important speeches, on successive days, Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden laid the basis for future British policy in Europe. With Parliament as a world rostrum, Anthony Eden announced in effect that Britain had returned to her traditional policy of balance of power in a Europe from which Germany would be eliminated. To the countries of Europe's Atlantic community -France, the Low Countries, Norway-he proposed in effect a West European bloc...