Word: bench
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned an inch. As a prelude to the trial, the five defense attorneys had challenged the federal jury system in New York. Then they had used up week after tedious week in shouted argument, breast-beating protest, endless examination of witnesses and a concerted caterwauling at the bench...
...sentence, the Hungarian Communists roared against the "Western warmongers," whose "slander-and-lie campaign" was "attempting to capitalize on the Mindszenty trial." It was clear that the Reds were still trying to establish a working relationship with the Catholic Church-on their own terms. Last week Hungary's Bench of Bishops received a letter-supposedly written by Mindszenty and similar to the one read during the trial-urging an agreement. At week's end, the bishops had not given their answer. But in Rome, the Pope once more sweepingly denounced Mindszenty's jailers and warned Catholics...
...what had proved to be one of Labor's most popular measures. In the House of Commons last week, Churchill declared that the vote of censure he had called for would be postponed. As he strolled out of the chamber, leaving Bevan lolling confidently on the government front bench, one Tory ruefully said: "The champ's quit. There'll be no bruising today...
...team will be further strengthened if Doug Anderson's sprained ankle heals enough to allow him to play the entire game. The cast over the third line wing's broken wrist doesn't bother his playing, but the ankle injury, sustained in the Dartmouth game, kept him on the bench during most of the Princeton game...
Dangerous Dan. For Plaintiff Daniel ("Dangerous Dan") Gardella, the word from the bench was the best news in a long time. As a wartime outfield fill-in for the New York Giants, Dan Gardella had never done anything to get himself into baseball's hall of fame (though he hit 18 home runs for the Giants in 1945). One of his chief distinctions was off-the-field acrobatics-he could crawl out a hotel window and dangle from the ledge by his fingertips. Three years ago, after a spring training row with the Giants, he stormed off to play...