Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Internal Revenue now expects detailed receipts and notations for such business tools as lunches, conventions and country-clubbing. "We do not want to interfere with legitimate business-expense deductions," Caplin insisted at a two-day hearing on the new rules. But 56 assorted executives who followed him to the rostrum plainly felt otherwise...
...finally, the candidate with the most sex appeal, Teddy Kennedy, approached the rostrum, launched into a vigorous attack on the Republican party, and demonstrated his mastery of rhetoric: "With this spirit we shall not fall; with this spirit we cannot fail." Then everybody left, for now they'd seen everything...
...folksy touch can make a difference in Nebraska. People grin when Morrison hoists his 6 ft. 3 in. hulk to the rostrum and begins: "I hope you came out not just to see if I'm as homely as I appear on television, but out of a desire to know more about government." Where Seaton, with his national reputation, once seemed a cinch, the race now seems close. Both candidates agree that it will be settled by the vote in the populous Omaha and Lincoln areas, where Morrison won his entire victory margin in 1960. That was before Jack...
...Menderes, demanded immediate and total amnesty. The army junta, which had overthrown Menderes was against letting anyone go. Wily Inonu finally won out by allowing his divided government to collapse and forming a new coalition with two small parties that agreed with him. Striding spryly up to the rostrum after the Deputies had passed his amnesty, Inonu said: "This is a big step toward attaining peace and happiness in the country. I congratulate...
Unpresumptuous Try. Yet when Ben Bella strode to the rostrum...