Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mysterious bunyip, the legendary beastie that lives at the bottom of the placid Australian billabong, is less strange to Australians than Herbert Vere Evatt. A shaggy intellectual who leaped zestfully from the High Court bench into the labor political swamp in 1940, Evatt was Minister of External Affairs in three successive Labor governments, was once (1948) president of the U.N. General Assembly, and was long a man expected by many to become Prime Minister. But Herbert Evatt's public popularity and political power have been shaking apart since Australia's Petrov spy case broke early last year, just...
...picture begins as Vivien Leigh, with a slug of gas and a Seconal chaser, is trying to end her life. When the neighbors break in and save her, she lapses into a flashback about life with hubby (Emlyn Williams), a prominent figure on Her Majesty's Bench. One day he introduces Vivien to a RAFfish type (Kenneth More), and her heart is soon shot down in flames. She runs away with More, only to discover that he is actually just a big wonderful boy, and that what he instinctively wants her to be is a mother...
...broken-down Ottoman Empire and the hot will of the late great Kemal Ataturk, for a people who for centuries left the complexities of commerce to their Greek and Armenian subjects, the Turks have made historic progress. In the five years since Premier Menderes left his Opposition bench in the Assembly to lead the Democrats to a stunning upset victory over the Republicans, he has gone all out to expand Turkey's productive capacity...
Scarce Hits. To the stadium's pitching mound for the finale, Brooklyn's Manager Walter Alston sent 23-year-old Johnny Podres, a slender (6 ft. 170 Ibs.) lefthander who had spent most of the season on the Dodger bench. Alston's logical starter, 2O-game winner Don Newcombe, was down with a sore arm. Podres, who "won only nine games in the regular season, had not lasted a full nine innings in league play since June 14. In late summer, the Dodger front office thought of shunting him to the disabled list and bringing...
Simon Garnier, Charlie's dignified but bibulous old grandfather, is the only really complex character of the book. Unlike the others he is something more than just an amusing quantity, and Goodman has drawn him deftly. Once a Missouri Supreme Court Justice he retired from the bench with a characteristic comment: "the people is a great beast." When Charlie comes to visit his grandfather, Old Garnier is still dispensing snorting judgments upon our modern culture from his 18th-century mansion overlooking the Mississippi. One of the cleverest portions of the book describes his approaching senility. But it never approaches...