Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals again upheld Youngdahl's dismissal, this time by a tie 4-to-4 vote (death has caused a vacancy on the bench...
...Hogan was bushed. The battered old (42) veteran of the golf-course wars limped into the locker room, slumped on a bench and grabbed for a whisky and water. "If I win this one," he said, "I'll never work at it again. It's just too hard on me to get ready any more." He seemed to have earned his rest. After four rounds on San Francisco's tough, tree-lined Olympic Club links, the "Mechanical Man" from Texas had posted a score of 287-seven over par. The fifth U.S. Open title that he wanted...
Scruffy Reality. As the Speaker began to administer to all members the oath of allegiance to the Queen, there was an outburst of cheers from the members' benches and applause from the visitors' gallery as a rosy, stout figure entered the chamber and took his place just below the gangway. Sir Winston Churchill-who once led all the rest-sat watching quietly as his former government colleagues trooped up ahead of him to take the oath. But when it came the turn of Labor's front bench, Clem Attlee made a gracious gesture. He crossed to Churchill...
...lays siege to her innocent quarry in a hectically eclectic attempt at seduction. No woman's wile is too corny or battle-worn for Lola as she romps about the stage to an insistent Latin rhythm, flinging caution and clothing to the winds. Stretched on a locker-room bench upstage, she sparks the onslaught with a try at the always reliable peek-a-boo technique. "Allo, Joe, it's meee-ee," she coos. A second later she is up and mincing forward as purposefully pigeon-toed as Betty Boop. Along the line two gloves and a skirt...
...golf; Nelson lost at predicting. C| Awarded the "Handicapped Man of the Year" trophy to Judge Sam M. Cathey of Asheville, N.C., who was blinded in his youth, went on to graduate Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina and serve on Asheville's municipal bench for 24 years...