Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John Caskis Collet, 57, judge of the Eighth U.S. Court of Appeals, who was "borrowed" from the bench in 1945 by President Truman to head the Office of Economic Stabilization; after long illness; in Kansas City...
...dribble the ball at mid-court. He exchanged quick passes with Bob Hastings at 2:45 and 4:30, dribbling in the meantime, and then held the ball in his hands for the next five and a half minutes. Intermittent hocking, mostly from a wit on the Middlebury bench, did not disturb him, and he only passed off after Middlebury shifted...
...face a chance between supporters of two middle-of-the-road candidates: Edgar Faure and Pierre Mendes-France. Despite the improvement of the French economy during Faure's reign, Mendes-France is undoubtedly the most able candidate for the Premiership. During his brief tour of duty on the Front Bench, his record was admirable. He removed the French from the seething crisis in Indo-China, placed his nation preponderatingly within the Western Defense Alliance, opened the way to settlement of the North African situation and, most important of all, proposed a new economic program which promised to restore France...
...horror. His foot came back and he kicked an imaginary ball right out of the field in disgust. Nervous substitutes kept a careful eye on their coach. They can still remember when Halas tried one of those phantom boots and place-kicked a 240-lb. guard right off the bench...
...added insult to injury by intercepting. In the shivering stands, fans warmed up by arguing that Coach Earl Blaik should never have ruined Holleder, an All-America end, by trying to teach him how to run a T-formation offense. In the second quarter. Blaik called Holleder to the bench to give him a last-minute cram course in football strategy...