Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that time may soon begin to run out, the President last week made several moves. He announced a second withdrawal of troops from combat and a two-month moratorium on the draft. He applied new pressure on the Congress to make selective service more equitable. And he used the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly to ask for help in ending...
...subject of his choosing. The idea, said the school, was to balance the great number of liberal speakers on the program and bring a "seldom-heard opinion" to the campus. As Thurmond stepped to the podium, seven students in white sheets and hoods moved up to encircle the rostrum. "Strom Thurmond loves burning yellow babies and starving black babies," read one of the signs they carried. A Thurmond comment on Viet Nam ("We'll have to fight elsewhere if we don't win here") brought forth chants of "Kill! Kill!" When the Senator finished, he left amid...
...Senatorial candidates preceded McCarthy on the rostrum--John J. Gilligan of Ohio, who defeated incumbent Frank Lausche in the Democratic primary, and Paul O'Dwyer of New York. O'Dwyer said a volunteer army should be put in place of the draft, the voting age should be lowered to 18, and "we should take the foreign policy of John Foster Dulles and scrap it once...
...last year, the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers assembled in Moscow to hymn the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The party hacks were in full control, and neither Solzhenitsyn nor any other dissenter was permitted to mount the rostrum. So Solzhenitsyn put his protest in the form of a letter to the congress that was circulated privately among the delegates and soon dominated all the corridor discussion. It has become the credo of dissenters not only in Russia but in Eastern Europe as well. Excerpts...
After pages of superfluous background, oversimplified opinion and bloodshed (including murder by laser), the party in power reconvenes its convention and chooses a hard-liner as its presidential candidate. Drury concludes the book with a "dreadful thing" that occurs on the rostrum as the candidate receives the party's acclaim. Suddenly, everyone is slipping around in blood. What happened to whom, how and why are questions that the author undoubtedly plans to answer in his next book. But after Preserve and Protect, the really important question is: When will Drury cease and desist...