Word: lectern
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...sounded weary as he mounted the podium. Bags bulged under his eyes; his thinning white hair was rumpled; his words came slowly at first. But as he warmed to his theme, his voice grew louder and shook with indignation; he waved his finger and brandished a fist over the lectern. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, known the world over for his all-weather, ear- to-ear grin, for once was in a boiling, very public rage...
Gorbachev complied -- sort of. On Friday he delivered a finger-wagging, lectern-thumping address that was long on promises, short on specifics. Yes, Gorbachev said, he planned "to get rid of outdated, clearly useless structures" in the government and to bring into it "politicians and experts who are more popular and enjoy the widest support." That sounded like a reference to Yeltsin, but Gorbachev coyly avoided giving any names and offered few details of what changes he really had in mind...
When describing Ibsen's reaction to a viewing of his own play, Rigg imitated him by pulling her hair and pounding on the lectern, shouting...
After several liberals rose to condemn the plan as dictatorial, Gorbachev took to the podium. Banging the lectern with his palm, his face scarlet with determination, he expressed his exasperation with those who dawdled while the economy went up in flames. "We're in a very dangerous situation," he said. "Let's not kid ourselves . . . I ask you for the authority to act." He finished to whoops of applause punctuated with shouts of "Let's do it!" There was no quorum in the hall, so no vote could be taken. But given the enthusiastic response to Gorbachev's oration...
...President persisted in his crusade for a constitutional amendment to prohibit defacement of the American flag, despite the measure's failure last week to win the required two-thirds majority in the House. During a fund- raising speech for Senator Jesse Helms in Charlotte, N.C., Bush uncharacteristically thumped the lectern and vowed, "I will fight for that amendment!" Republican strategists concede that public interest in the two- year-old flag issue is fading, yet they promise to hook it to a life- support system: negative TV ads in the election campaign...