Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political agitator, was moved to such indignation at the sacrifices which had taken place on the battlefields of Lexington and Concord that he launched in London a public subscription in behalf of "our beloved American fellow subjects." Result: he was fined ?200 and clapped into King's Bench prison for a year. The kindness of his Tory gaolers in permitting him to dine out once a week at the nearby Dog & Duck tavern only served to increase Whig Tooke's bitterness against them; he blamed the gout from which he suffered all the last years of his life...
Colonel Blaik was out platooned Saturday afternoon not by the Crimson football team, but by the Harvard Hand. Employing his full bench of over 150 musicians, Manager Paul A Luesy '51 substituted specialists as well as units without breaking play...
Since President Truman appointed Tom Clark and Sherman Minton to the Supreme Court a year ago, many people have maintained the Bench's decisions show signs of a swing to the right. Others have argued that there has been no change or that, if anything, the Court is more liberal than before...
...group got more ammunition for its argument last week when, opening the fall term, the Court vacated a decision of the Florida Supreme Court. The state justices had upheld a Miami ordinance prohibiting Negroes form playing on a municipal golf course except on one day a week. The high bench, however, cancelled that finding and directed reconsideration "in the light of" its June decisions in the Sweatt and McLaurin cases...
...Since Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty went to jail 21 months ago for defying the Red regime, 63-year-old Archbishop Joseph Grosz of Kalocsa has headed Hungary's bench of bishops. No weakling, Grosz once refused a Nazi order backed by machine guns, to leave his palace. Last June he protested to Rakosi when the Communists seized the monasteries and convents of Transdanubia, the heartland of Catholic Hungary. Rakosi smoothly replied that the state was ready to negotiate. At the time, monks and nuns were being imprisoned by the thousands and the bishops decided they had no choice...