31.   How do you take the podium after Churchill has spoken?

32.   Jesse Jackson, for example, will take the podium tonight before the broadcast networks take to the air.

33.   Lamm, speaking before Perot took the podium, congratulated him on winning the nomination.

34.   Lynch finally takes the podium.

35.   Mbeki took the podium.

36.   Ms. Coady applauded everyone, but was especially attentive when Mrs. Clinton took the podium.

37.   Nick Faldo looked stunned, almost disoriented, as he took the podium to address the press Sunday afternoon.

38.   None of the police taking the podium Wednesday fired shots during the gunfight.

39.   Once she took the podium, she was as eloquent, prepared and intent about the significance of her subject as any doctoral candidate could hope to be.

40.   Onstage, before taking the podium, she received a group hug from a flock of women, most of them suited in blue.