Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comrade Gottwald made his way to the rostrum and told the crowd what had just happened in Hradcany Castle. "The decision," said Gottwald, "was not an easy one for President Benes...
Only-Students on Rostrum...
...three seniors finally selected will be the only students taking the rostrum in the commencement program. The class orator, poet, and similar officers perform on class...
...pale, ailing little priest prepared for his speech as usual, by spending four or five hours in concentrated prayer. This time, he fainted as he knelt in prayer, and had to be carried to the rostrum. There his strength returned and the words poured from him with such power and passion that many of his hearers wept...
...taught, a dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., a disciplined little gang of power monopolists). In 1917, in the assembly hall of a swank girls' school in Petrograd, behind unwashed windows that excluded the sky, Lenin stood up. His ill-fitting, overlong trousers flapped about his feet. Gripping the rostrum, he said quietly: "We shall now proceed to construct the proletarian socialist order in Russia...