Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro being tried by a bunch of whites. Later," he explains, "the Negro dropped out of it, leaving just the judge, lofty and bespectacled, a record, a dignified bunch of lawyers and some unimportant guy in the box." With these few dim figures, around a judge's bench, Levine brilliantly evokes an air of weirness and worry, weighted with wiles and latent threat...
Mild Manager. After that, Dusty struck out twice, a failure that almost proved him human. But by then the Giants were safely in front. Durocher's men didn't seem capable of making a single serious error. Over on the Cleveland bench, Alfonso Ramon Lopez watched his boys make a shambles of their reputation. "Everything we've done is wrong," marveled the mild-mannered manager. "Everything they've done is right." Probably not even a good ball team could have beaten the Giants; the lackluster Indians never had a chance. After the third game Sportswriter...
...sports, bench strength is the measure of a winner. In this Saturday's opener with Wesleyan, varsity soccer coach Bruce Munro hopes to field a winning team with virtually all its offensive strength in the starting lineup. Munro has assembled a potent forward line supported by three fine halfbacks, but is faced with a dearth of defensive talent and reserve strength...
Today Whalen, who last week completed eight out of sixteen passes for a total of 122 yards, will be only one of three UMass passers. Behind him on the bench will be junior Howie Burns and sophomore John Noble, who will both get a chance to direct the Redmen's straight-and split-T formations...
...shrewdly called on ailing old Edouard Herriot, honorary President of the Assembly, who for years has appealed more to French emotions than to French intelligence. Bowed under the weight of his 82 years and long illness, he was too feeble to rise and mount the rostrum, but from his bench the "old bear" spoke theatrically in his deep voice. "I have read the documents with anguish," he rumbled. "No one can say that Great Britain is engaged to stand by our side. That alone would be enough to make me reject EDC . . . The treaty does not give France the right...