Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening, passing up a Club Unión reception, the President took in the dancing in the Parque Central. As he sat on a park bench watching the capital's famously handsome señoritas walk by arm in arm, some drunks raised a cheer for the government's bitterest enemy, exiled ex-President Rafael Calderón Guardia. Ulate forbade their arrest. "Let them viva whom they wish," he said...
Brown picked up the ball on a bad pass, hit with a foul, and had the ball under the varsity's basket when the automatic timer registered the end of the game. Coach Morris jumped from the Brown bench claiming a discrepancy between the timer and the Blockhouse clock, and referee Roberts ordered the ball jumped at mid-court. Gerry Murphy took the tap and dribbled until time ran out for the second time...
Resentment & Rupture. Declaring that her eyes had been opened by Krishnamurti's teachings, Mrs. Mehta had told her husband she would live a celibate life, and had moved into the dressing room. Judge Eric Weston (one of the few remaining Britons on India's bench) denied Mrs. Mehta's petition. He dryly observed: "I do not think there is any room for doubt that the teachings [of Krishnamurti] suggesting revolt of the wife from her doormat position must have had their effect upon her mind . . . This led to her refusal to carry on marital relations with...
Federal prosecutor Thomas F. Murphy has opposed the admission of psychiatric testimony in trial, but the bench ruled such testimony valid today...