Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple as the score suggested. All through the first period, while All-America Tom Gola and his teammates tried to get untracked, a tall (6 ft. 4 in., 185 lbs.), poker-faced playboy of a Mountaineer named Rodney ("Hot Rod") Hundley ran wild. On the La Salle bench, Coach Ken Loeffler screamed himself into a purple fury as he watched Hot Rod bamboozle the champs with unpredictable shots from impossible angles...
Crimson Coach Floyd Wilson, his team behind, 33 to 20, at the half, and 45 to 29 with six minutes gone in the second half, substituted freely, clearing his-whole bench in the slaughter, Ike Canty was high for the losers with 11 points...
...duties, he must have full-time professional help. Only 13 states (plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia) now have such offices of judicial administration. An example of their work is seen in the weekly summary of reports from every New Jersey judge, listing hours spent on the bench, cases and motions heard, and decisions reserved. These reports on individual performance are distributed to all judges. The effect on indolent judges when their laziness is thus exposed has, Arthur Vanderbilt says tersely, been "truly remarkable...
...generally been effected under the impetus of a popular revolt of laymen against the quaint professional notion that the courts exist primarily for the benefit of judges and lawyers and only incidentally for the benefit of the litigants and the state." Against the members of the bar and the bench who stand in the way of reform, Vanderbilt issues a scathing indictment: "I am convinced that the criminals, the gangsters, the corrupt local officials, the Communistic subversives who would undermine and overthrow our Government with bloodshed and terror such as we have seen abroad . . . are no more dangerous...
...dictatorship with checks and balances, and had failed. In the party Presidium pew Malenkov was hamming a little, pretending to talk to the men around him. But no one in that audience was deceived. They knew now how serious it was for Malenkov. At the other end of the bench the parched, crushed-satin face of Molotov was turned away, and Marshal Bulganin fussed with papers like an old white parrot. Khrushchev alone among them seemed willing to exchange a word with the ex-Premier...