Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a practiced veteran, and opened a spot in the lineup for a flashy, hard-hitting rookie named Rudy Regalado. The Indians started after the lead. Now that Regalado is slumping at bat, Manager Al Lopez has another capable first baseman, ex-Oriole Vic Wertz, so he can safely bench Regalado and send Rosen back to third...
Before he could play, he had the lights turned up so he could see the huge audience. "Isn't that great, George?" he bubbled to his brother. Then he began his musical efforts by raising his piano bench higher because "This is a pretty high-class number." Pretty high-class for Liberace were something called Cornish Rhapsody (originally a British film score), emasculated versions of popular Chopin pieces, and Debussy's Clair de Lune, accompanied by five Madison Square Garden spotlights making like the moon. Hardly anybody had time to decide whether he was playing all the notes...
...Governor Herter's judiciary bills, the one which would set up a number of courts wholly devoted to juvenile delinquency. Judge Tomasello's opinion is interesting not so much for its content as for the forum from which it was made. He delivered it ex cathedra, from his high bench, in the course of a decision on a case before...
...power to doom or aid legislation by way of construction and administration is immense. The only justification for allowing individuals such sweeping authority is that they use it with the restraint so long associated with their office. "Theirs is not to reason why" is as apt motto for the bench as it is for the Light Horse. Their opinions, whether the legislation involves their own jobs or someone else's, must be limited to determining the legislature's intention, and not what they happen to think of the measure. Whether this detached attitude toward legislation is always possible...
...long mahogany bench sat the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.* From the red velour hangings behind the bench to the great doors at the back of the room, every seat was filled. Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the U.S., picked up a printed document from his desk and began to read in a firm, clear voice...