Word: platform
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...quick fame is irresistible. Although elections are not due until March 5, there were 140 registered parties in Greece last week. There was the National Salvation Party, whose emblem was a skyscraper apartment house with St. Constantine and his mother, St. Helena, peeping out of the top window. Its platform: "Death and scorn to the wicked and incompetent who have brought Hellas to this plight." There was the Greek Orthodox Party, whose leader exhibited his own photograph in white pleated national dress, with the motto, "Love is the mother of happiness." Among the rest were the National Rebirth Party...
Outside, on the platform, a girl was actually laughing...
...drizzly afternoon last week, a train from Oranienburg rolled into Gesund-brunnen Station in Berlin's French sector. Haggard men in tattered clothes and bony, hollow-eyed women straggled onto the platform. Last to get out was a white-faced, white-haired old man with a frayed velvet-collared overcoat. He leaned gasping against a wall. "Yes, yes, from over there," he muttered. "I must be dreaming. Please don't ask me any questions...
...morning last week an elderly man with wispy white hair mounted his platform in a Columbia University classroom and began his lecture as if it were to be just like any other. He did not appear to notice that his audience, even larger than usual, had filled every seat and lined the walls. Professor Carlton J. H. Hayes spoke as he always spoke, bringing his course in modern European history up to the minute. Just before the warning bell sounded for the end of class, he had come to 1950. "And there," said Carlton Hayes, "I leave...
...double-breasted coat close around him as if it were a cloak and seem to become Disraeli, Metternich or Bismarck himself. Even his prolonged "Aahhs . . ." ("A miracle of breath control," one student called them) seemed dramatic. Once, in the midst of his pacings, he fell right off his platform. Nobody laughed, for fear of breaking his spell...