Word: bench
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred-odd spectators watched. Six lawyers for the defense hunched over their tables, facing the bench. Judge Medina began to rock, holding his hand to his face. McGohey rose to outline the Government's case to the jury of twelve and its four alternate members...
Then it was Loyola's turn for a while. With Forward Ralph Klaerich doing most of their scoring, they brought the game to a 47-47 tie with less than a minute to go. On the bench, the Dons' 33-year-old coach, Pete Newell, chewed on a crumpled towel...
...promised gift when Franklin Roosevelt reached over his head to make Republican Henry Stimson Secretary of War, balked again when Henry Wallace got the White House blessing for Vice President in 1940, Johnson stayed in there, ready to pitch for the party when he was called from the bench...
Thus far The God-Seeker reads somewhat like any other frontier novel, with Martin Arrowsmith cast as Anthony Adverse. When a revival meeting comes to Adams, however, and Aaron, aged 25, finds himself at the mourners' bench without quite knowing how he got there, the book takes on a distinctive air that makes it unusual among drum-and-petticoat books and also among Lewis' own 20 previous novels. Aaron Gadd tries to be a Christian...
...bells didn't bother the Aggies. They played the slow, deliberate, agonizing brand of basketball for which they are famous, and for which fast-breaking St. Louis had no antidote. On the St. Louis bench, Coach Ed Hickey gave an imitation of a man fighting off bees as the score went against him, furiously diagrammed plays on the floor with chalk during time-outs. On the Aggie bench, Coach Hank Iba said reassuringly to his men: "Take your time. Take your time...