Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Andy Ward tied to the bench by a sore arm, Jim Fitzgibbons started for the varsity. After a walk, a single, and a sacrifices, Don Butters' triple drove in two runs to set the Crimson ahead in the first. Starting behind the plate for the first time this season, Dick Classy drew another single through center for an RBH, and a 3-0 lead...
...other court, it might have seemed that the bench was having a little joke, but District Judge Karl Holzschuh of Darmstadt, Germany, meant every word he said. The defendant in the case was a 17-year-old boy who had just been convicted of stealing a motorcycle and roaring about the streets. The judge, however, had no intention of clapping him in jail. "You will never know the beauties of nature," said he, "if all you do is drive through it like a madman." The boy's sentence: a year-long membership in the local walking club...
Judge Henry T. Lummus of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court referred the petitions to the full bench and the controversy will probably be presented to the Court at one of its first meetings in October...
Jackson, who has been a member of the Supreme Court since 1941, served after the second world war as United States chief counsel in the Nuremberg war crime trials. Before his appointment to the bench he had served as general counsel of the Internal Revenue Bureau, Solicitor General, and Attorney General of the United States...
Late at night in the House of Commons, when the freshness has gone from the air, and the lights shine dully on bald pates, weariness creeps into the usually keen blue eyes of the man sitting alone on the government front bench. His blue suit crumples. The thinning blond hair is no longer so carefully brushed across the balding scalp, and every now & then he coughs chestily. He fidgets. His left hand rubs slowly over his cheeks, reaches for a handkerchief to wipe his plumpish fate. Or his right forefinger goes round and upward to scratch...