Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago: "I have always been nice to Mrs. Minnen, but I didn't want a lot of birds around my house. Your honor, what would you, as a judge, do with a bunch of sparrows?" Judge Albert Boone solemnly turned to his two colleagues on the bench and put the question to them, but they could only shrug their shoulders in answer...
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas said he had no thought of running for President in 1952: "I'm going to stay on the bench. I like it there." Defense Secretary Louis Johnson felt much the same. "I am not a candidate for President," he announced from the deck of the carrier Midway, adding that his only desire when the long trick was over was to "go back to the hills of West Virginia for a little sleep and rest...
...Bench. Next day at the White House, Harry Truman greeted about 1,000 visitors-more than on any day since he became President. They included labor politickers, 4-H Club campers, editors of business magazines. The bigger crowds he led out into the rose garden, where, standing on a wrought-iron park bench, he explained that he'd like to shake each & every hand, etc., but couldn...
...Nuns? The Communist attempt to break up Budapest's Corpus Christi procession was merely an incident in a new campaign waged by Hungary's Red regime against the Roman Catholic Church since the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty over two years ago. The ostensible cause: Hungary's Bench of Bishops had refused to support an anti-Western "peace" resolution of the Partisans of Peace, an international Communist front. When a group of Hungarian nuns refused to sign the "peace" resolution, one Red paper screeched: "These warlike sisters prefer to see burned and mangled corpses rather than healthy cheerful...
Last week in the dark oak solemnity of a King's Bench courtroom, Mother Moo-moo's menu became the principal evidence in a libel action brought against Norcott and the Daily Mail by the proprietors of the real-life Moo Cow Milk Bars of London. Moo Cow Director Frederick Abdela, who told the court that he himself was often known as Mr. Moo, declined to see anything humorous about Norcott's article. It was, said Abdela, "a cynical and horrible criticism of a business which could only be taken...