Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis, Cardinal Outfielder Stan Musial, his fourth National League batting championship (.346); in Boston, the Red Sox's Billy ("One-Man Bench") Goodman, the American League championship...
...down to politics: by attempting to exercise the power of veto over the government, Churchill was aiming to force a coalition on the Labor Party. Up jumped Tory Oliver Lyttleton: "We do not want it." Retorted Morrison: "Do not . . . make any mistake. Half the jokers . . . from that Front Bench want a coalition...
...Judge Kaufman "darted in, flushed and lively-eyed. He was a small neat man with a sort of Disney apprehensiveness. His big black bow tie came over the top of the bench and he squatted like a meditative black rabbit...
...church-state agreement had been negotiated by the Bench of Hungarian Bishops independently of the Vatican (TIME, Sept. 11), in the hope of relieving growing Communist pressure on the church. Said the bishops in a pastoral letter read in Budapest churches last Sunday: "We were deeply afflicted, and nothing was left to us but to protest...
...Billy has played all over the infield. He has performed ably, if not brilliantly, at first, second and third bases and shortstop. But it is only since he took over Williams' leftfield post that Goodman has begun to get recognition for what he is: the best one-man bench in baseball. Red Sox Manager Steve O'Neill, who has been around the game for 40 years, calls him. "the best utility player I ever...