Word: rostrum
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...Last week Baldwin was in California, hopping from city to city to talk to college and high school students. Thrust from typewriter to rostrum by virtue of a widely acclaimed, blistering essay in The New Yorker (TIME, Jan. 4), now in book form under the title The Fire Next Time, Baldwin spared his audiences nothing. He spoke not for himself but for all Negroes to all whites. "I hoed a lot of cotton," he said. "I laid a lot of track. I dammed a lot of rivers. You wouldn't have had this country if it hadn't been...
...convey his greetings to the assembly, expressing prayerful hope that the meeting may further the cause of peace and brotherhood of mankind." Himself Is Here. As toastmaster, Editor in Chief Luce introduced the guests with him on the dais. When he finished, there was a bustle at the rostrum as news of a late arrival was whispered into his ear. Then came...
Pusey, who made his remarks in an address to the annual meeting of the Association of Harvard Clubs, appeared nervous at the start of the speech, but he soon became emphatic, stressing his points by pounding on the rostrum...
...that the 70-year old Leverett Saltonstall should lead the 30-year old Edward Kennedy anywhere, but it is a perfectly natural thing to do in the United States Senate. Salty, as Massachusetts' senior Senator, was the obvious and traditional choice this January to lead Teddy up to the rostrum where he signed the oath book and officially became a United States Senator. Nobody felt any embarrassment at this or any of the other unlikely combinations at the rostrum-Dodd and Ribicoff, or Mundt and McGovern-for the ritual expressed silently what Mike Mans-field said after it was over...
...Soviet zone, declared Khrushchev, no longer made "the conclusion of a peace treaty the same problem as it was before Aug. 13." Everyone applauded enthusiastically-everyone, that is, except the little man in a grey-blue uniform who sat impassively among the delegates to the left of the rostrum. He was Wu Hsiu-chuan, Red China's delegate sent by Peking to register quiet disdain at Khrushchev's conduct in the latest chapter in the Sino-Soviet split...