Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the bench, Wurmeling turned to the movie industry. "The average film." he said, "accents prostitution, eroticism and woman-chasing . . ." He proposed i) a "people's censorship." and 2) a boycott of films made by "errant .[Hollywood] actors . . . who announce they are getting divorces so as to be free to marry each other." The moviemakers screamed ("Terrorism . . . generalized slanting . . ."), but busy Wurmeling was undeterred. For one officially worried about the state of family life in postwar Germany, there were plenty of other problems to tackle: ¶With only 23 million men (many of them war-wounded) to balance...
Saloon Expense Account. Reporter Webster seldom took it easy on his beat, telephoned in to rewritemen tips and stories that helped the crusading P-D break scores of exclusives on everything from protection rackets and gambling to a series on corruption on the federal bench that won a Pulitzer Prize. Many of his sources were cultivated after hours in a bar across the street from the Federal Building, where Webster was the only P-D reporter to have a special "saloon expense account." His expense account also included other unorthodox items. Once he bought an overcoat to go to Indianapolis...
Keeping his comment to a minimum, Murrow made his show largely from newsreel clips of McCarthy in action on the rostrum and the committee bench-a contrived but effective record of arrogance and assumed martyrdom, of half-stifled belches and heavy-handed humor. Radio & TV men spent the next day congratulating each other that the networks had, for once, shaken off their habitual timidity...
Bulger, a reserve guard for most of the season, was one of the team's most dependable playmakers. He came off the bench late in the first Yale game to score eight points and spark the team to an upset...
Wilson yesterday summed up the main factors that led to an undefeated season. "The team possessed a fierce competitive spirit and improved more during the season than any other squad I've ever coached. The bench was strong," he added, "and could be counted on when the first string was below...