Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chief Justice.. Fuchs stood up in the dock, read a statement from notes in a high, tinny voice, barely intelligible underneath his heavy German accent. "I have had a fair trial," he said, "and I wish to thank you, My Lord . . ." Then Lord Goddard leaned forward on his bench; a chill passed through the courtroom...
That afternoon the M.P.s re-elected their Speaker, Colonel Clifton Brown. He sat quietly on his bench awaiting the traditional byplay. Without a word, the Clerk of the House signaled to Laborite David Kirkwood. In a warmhearted speech, Socialist Kirkwood proposed Tory Brown as Speaker...
Last week a bright-eyed old man sat on a worn leather bench in London's Athenaeum Club and echoed this admonition from Greek Scholar Adolphus Cusins in Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara...
...Justice, which had felt itself hampered under existing search & seizure laws. Frankfurter in his dissent was alarmed at the way the majority decision upset a principle reaffirmed as recently as two years ago, before the two new Truman appointees, Minton and ex-Attorney General Tom Clark, reached the bench. Frankfurter read his freshman colleagues a cutting lecture...
...looked for Joan. She was sitting on one of the thin benches with a man on either side and two standing in front of her. They all seemed to be saying things that made her laugh. Slowly, he went past the bench into the other room where there was dancing. He got some cranberry punch from the table and sat down. He watched a girl while she danced with someone who steered into the corner where she would be less conspicuous. She had auburn hair, blue eyes and freckles; Vag stood up to see her while she danced away from...