Word: platform
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...cream-colored, gold-trimmed Terrace Room of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel last week, 500 stockholders of Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd. (Dole products) sat in wide-eyed fascination. On the platform, in addition to a raft of dark-suited officers and directors, was a group of Hawaiian islanders decked out in bright and summery island garb. All were employees of the company; they were there to explain Hawaiian Pineapple's annual report to the stockholders...
...Slowly he becomes animated. He slips a hand in a pocket and tells an anecdote, two, three anecdotes, until the audience consents to smile a little. Then his tone warms up, the face of the orator turns purple, his voice becomes husky. He strikes the pulpit. He paces the platform, he brandishes supplicating or vengeful fists, and only sits down when he has reached his last gasp...
...quality and range of Churchill's wartime writings, they succeed only intermittently in suggesting why Roosevelt was such a dynamic wartime leader or why he captured the love and affection of so many millions of Americans and their Allies. His gifts were essentially for aural relations. On the platform, on the radio and in the newsreels, his qualities got across in a manner only faintly suggested by the plain, black & white written word...
Having cleared his system with this series of inversions, Jones then went on to announce the contestants, none of whom presumably could even do a handstand. While the audience sat in darkness, each aspirant mounted a spotlighted platform in turn flexed his pectoral, and assumed three poses: front, back, and optional...
After the decision was announced, Massies stood quietly on the platform, flanked by his two runners-up, each of whom received a smaller trophy. Some might sat he was thinking ahead to the coming battle for Mr. America honors. I'll bet, though, he was considering the debt he owed to weightlifting...