Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under a sign exhorting "Stand Up for America," Wallace mounted a rostrum at the Pittsburgh Hilton to address his first Northern audience since announcing for the presidency. While an S.R.O. crowd of 2,000 cheered and shouted "Amen!" and "Tell it like it is, George!", Alabama's former Governor sneered, winked and thundered through a 50-minute attack on everything from the Supreme Court to his favorite target, "pseudo-intellectuals." When it was over, he had in hand a thousand more signatures than the 10,551 needed to place his American Independent Party on Pennsylvania's presidential ballot...
...cavernous classroom No. 350 at Tokyo's Nihon University, 800 drowsy students, dressed mostly in the traditional black tunics and black trousers, stared dully at the far-off rostrum. Suddenly, the 8 a.m. mood was shattered by the magnified rumble of a professor clearing his throat into a powerful P.A. system-and a lecture on commercial law was under way. The Japanese call it masu puro kyōiku (mass-production education), the style of academic life in the world's most university-populated city. Within Tokyo are no fewer than 102 universities with nearly 500,000 students...
...advent of televised wrestling. The Tory high command, following the example of Party Leader Ted Heath, sat solemnly on the speaker's platform, heavy-lidded, hard-shelled and heartburned. Little about the party leaders suggested that they were capable of standing up to the slogan emblazoned on the rostrum: PUT BRITAIN BACK ON HER FEET. Speaker after speaker proclaimed the merits or decried the perils of 14 tired resolutions (including calls for higher tariff barriers, negotiations with Rhodesia and "the protection of our interests overseas"), all of which were duly adopted by 4,500 Tory delegates...
...Reflecting Pool, which stretches between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. They overflowed beyond the big shade trees and sat on the banks on the Constitution Avenue side. David Dellinger, chairman of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, was standing in front of a rostrum across the street from the scolding stare of Abraham Lincoln. Dellinger was saying, "Our-voices will be heard and our bodies will be heeded...
Violence had begun at the Reflecting Pool. Two young men in wind-breaker jackets relieved the boredom by rushing British Labor leader Clive Jenkins, who was speaking, and smashing him and the rostrum and all the microphones down to the ground. No one was hurt, and the two men, later identified as members of the American Nazi Party (Arlington, Va.), were wrestled away by marshals as the Nazis yelled, "Commies, commies, Vietcong commies," into a microphone obligingly held by a radio station technician...