Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncertain Days. In the tense final days of the debate, the crowd in the galleries and the speakers on the rostrum alike grew more emotional. Pakistan's Sir Mahmoud Zafrullah Khan, ending an argument against partition, threw back his bearded head and cried: "All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Universe." In his last harangue Iraq's excitable Fadhil Jamali accused Zionists of financing a recent Communist conspiracy in Bagdad. The crowd booed, stamped and jeered...
...Japan's coal mines). When the Speaker called for a preliminary vote, alcoholic catcalls greeted him. Then surow mow (slow motion) set in. Opposition members slowly sauntered to the ballot box. One of them, loudly complaining of an injured leg, took two minutes to climb the six-step rostrum to the ballot box. Others, magnificently squiffed, zigzagged through the chamber, stopped to chat with friends en route...
When Speaker Komakichi Matsuoka cried: "Speed it up," an irate representative staggered toward the rostrum, grabbed the chief Diet guard by the necktie and .slapped him over the head. The lawmaker was ejected...
Cato & Mr. Shylock. It was a typical day at the Assembly. Beyond the dull-orange doors, guarded by U.N.'s own police in bluish-grey uniforms, sat the spectators (mostly matrons and students) in a subdued glow of public spirit. From the rostrum at the far end of the huge hall, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky faced them. A proposal had been made by Argentina to submit the veto question to the "Little Assembly" for examination. Vishinsky fulminated against it, exploded with similes: ". . . They are repeating day after day 'the veto must be destroyed'; like Cato...
...prominent churchmen will face each other on the Rindge Tech rostrum tonight at 8 o'clock when Reinhold Niebuhr and The Reverend John A. O'Brien, S.J., meet in a Law School Forum on "The Compatibility of Communism with Christianity...