Today’s WOTD – 9 October 2012

hustings 

[huhs-tingz]
noun ( used with a singular or plural verb )
1. (before 1872) the temporary platform on which candidates for the British Parliament stood when nominated and from which they addressed the electors.
2. any place from which political campaign speeches are made.
3. the political campaign trail.

For example:

‘Even before the election was formally called, the politicians from all parties had hit the hustings, kissing babies and hugging pensioners’.

Today’s aphorism

‘If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine’.

Che Guevara

On this day

9 October 1940 – birthday of John Lennon. English guitarist and singer-songwriter for the Beatles. Died 8 December 1980.

9 October 1967 – death of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary, physician, author. Executed in Bolivia.

9 October 1969 – birth of P.J. Harvey, English musician.

9 October 1975 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet dissident, wins Nobel Peace Prize.