Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope came through my cell upon reading your story, "Prescription from the Bench" [June 1]. Another intellectually prominent individual (Judge Murtagh) joins the list of unheeded authorities on the controversial drug addict problem that is merely sloughed off like the deuce of diamonds when clubs are trumps...
...opposition Socialists tried to keep the fight alive. "The German people are no longer willing to watch us go back to the darkness of the rule of one man," said pudgy Opposition Leader Erich Ollenhauer. Erhard sat silent and unsmiling on the government bench while Adenauer taunted the Socialist: "Herr Ollenhauer is always saying I am inflexible, and now he is accusing me of changing my mind." Unmoved by all the criticism, Adenauer wound up: "What I have done, I have done for the good of the German people...
Next day Erhard outlined his economic policy before a practically empty house. Not one Cabinet minister sat on its government bench. Some people were already beginning to refer to "poor Ludwig," an ominous sign in a country that likes its Chancellors to be strong. But at week's end, attending a meeting in his native Bavaria. Erhard was cheered as he said that he had resisted an open fight with Adenauer because of the gravity of the international situation (the same reason Adenauer invoked for not stepping down). On the surface, Adenauer's control of his party...
...wrote the column, Columnist Connor played a part in the biggest Liberace show in years -the trial of the high-tuned pianist's suit for libel against Connor and his paper. Before an overstuffed gallery of matronly bosoms, Liberace charged in London's Queen's Bench Division court that the offending column cast reflections on his gender by implying that he was less than a man: "This article has attacked me below the belt on a moral issue. On my word of God, on my mother's health, which is so dear to me, this article...
...explained that last-minute tests of the button circuit showed that it was setting up interference in other circuits and it had therefore been turned off. Last week word leaked out that neither explanation was correct. Truth was that Able was a substitute off the space-monkey bench...