Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, from his place on the back bench beside Bevan, Bevanite Richard Crossman briskly shattered Labor's show of unanimity. If some Laborites abstain, said Grossman bluntly, "the reason will not be any change of conviction, but the fact that if one wants to survive in our party to fight another day, one has to accept a majority decision, however unpleasant . . . Let us be clear what we are about...
...ambitions on what seemed to be two surefire issues. He challenged the Labor Party's leadership by opposing 1) West German rearmament, 2 ) a Southeast Asia pact. To dramatize his rebellion, he resigned from Labor's "Shadow Cabinet," gave up his front seat on the Opposition benches and retreated bulkily to the "Mountain," the backest back bench in the House of Commons, to await the showdown...
...Dartmouth and Columbia games were close, just close enough, in fact, to convince all too many Harvard fans that the difference between victory and defeat was sitting in an overcoat in front of the Harvard bench. But through all the local pessimism Jordan remained confident of this team, never hedging from his prediction that Harvard would finish the season strongly and never trying to make the team play ahead of its pace...
...triple-threat back isn't much good with a double-fracture of the Wrist. In fact, Royce Flippin will be getting the closest he's been to game action since Oct. 16 when he dresses to sit on the Princeton bench this afternoon while the tigers meet the Crimson in Palmer Stadium...
...Shepard's squad, which has beaten Dean Academy, Dartmouth, and tufts since losing to Brown in its opener, will play the whole game out of a T-formation. The single wing platoon that has played alternate quarters for the Jayvees against previous opponents will be assigned to the varsity bench, giving Coach Lloyd Jordan extra reserve strength...