Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baird stutters and often acts defensively on a rostrum, he is emotional and self-defensive on a radio interview, and he strikes many Harvard students as churlish. Baird knows this. Despite his manner, it's hard not to admire what Baird has done and what he hopes to do. At one point, he handed me a letter from a poor mother in Rochester who had just learned of her daughter's pregnancy...
Defiantly rejecting the "intemperant utterance" of Russia's Aleksei Kosygin, who preceded him in the rostrum, Eban spelled out the actions of Moscow and the Arab states themselves as unassailable proof of who was responsible for the Mideast war. Rather than accept Israel's "sovereign right to existence," Eban said, the Arabs adopted a "doctrine of 'day-by-day military confrontation.' " Rather than working for peace, Russia "has for 14 years afflicted the Middle East with a headlong armaments race." Eban read off the deadly catalogue of Russian arms that had been delivered to the Arabs...
...outcry mounted-until Clay finally heard it. In an interview, he tried to repair his image by apologizing for "making the ring a speaking rostrum." Terrell, he said, was "a real man." Later, Clay had a substantial piece of evidence on his side: movies of the fight showed that the only foul punches were thrown by the blinded Terrell. By week's end Clay had regained some of his old pre-Muslim composure. Appearing on NBC's Tonight Show, he was asked whether he was by any chance in love. Replied Cassius coolly: "Not with anybody else...
Like West Germany itself, the massive grey and golden eagle that hung above the rostrum of the Bundestag looked pleasantly plump, more mercantile than martial and, with its blunted wings and studded breast, convincingly contemporary. Beneath it last week the 17-year-old Federal Republic of Germany swore in a new Chancellor whose accession to power marks the close of the postwar chapter of Germany's history and the birth of a new spirit and a new approach to the world for its 57 million people...
Shortly before noon on January 18, 1967, the 300 members of the General Court of Massachusetts will assemble in the elegant Chamber of the House of Representatives. Two carved thrones on the canopied Speaker's Rostrum and twelve black leather armchairs at its base will be conspicuously empty. At just a few minutes before noon there will be a loud rapping on the chamber's main door. The president of the senate, who will be presiding, will order the door opened, and a man dressed in a morning suit and top hat, holding an ivory mace will enter...