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Under the glass top of his desk at the Pentagon, Powell kept a pulpit's worth of sayings: Get mad, then get over it.

From Time Magazine Archive

After a while, he stepped down, dragged over a ladder, and climbed to the pulpit's top.

From Time Magazine Archive

As always, it was President Clinton, the most finely tuned politician of the age and the bully pulpit's current occupant, who best captured the prevailing political tone.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was leaning a little forward, seeming to see nothing; but his hands, grasping the pulpit's edge, were quivering.

From Saint's Progress by Galsworthy, John

He was the greatest orator that stood within the pulpit's narrow curve.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green