Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fishbait") Miller, Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives, rose and raised a stentor's voice: "Mistuh Speakuh: the President of the United States." To the standing applause of a joint session of the U.S. Congress, a smiling Dwight Eisenhower (carefully shirted in television blue) strode to the rostrum. He was beginning two difficult years of business with a Congress organized by an opposition party that had one main...
...squads of eight, the Senators and Senators-elect marched solemnly down the center aisle into the well of the Senate-each newcomer escorted by an incumbent. Four at a time, the new Senators faced the rostrum and repeated the oath after Vice President Nixon. Then they signed the roster on the clerk's desk and went to their desks...
Gathered in noisy convention amidst the moldering elegance of a onetime Dutch social club, the members of Indonesia's ruling Nationalist Party cheered a handsome man in a black fez and specially designed presidential uniform, who bounced to the rostrum. He was angry...
Mendès, taking the rostrum, said that as a result of the "remorseless campaign" of lies and calumnies conducted by "certain leading persons in France," he had suffered ''deep humiliation" when negotiating with allied statesmen in London. "I will not submit to this usury," he said. "The question which faces you tonight is . . . does the government have your confidence as patriots and Deputies?" The vote: 287 to 240 in favor of Mendès, his smallest majority...
...ensuing hubbub, a Republican named Sirri Atalay got up to say that during Turkey's war of liberation against Greece (1922), Menderes had been seen strolling "arm in arm" with a Greek officer. This is the ultimate insult in Turkey: two avenging Democrats leaped up to the rostrum and dragged Atalay down. The fighting continued in the corridors, so the presiding officer hastily recessed the Assembly...