Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear his sentence. "Have you anything to say?" asked Judge Allison Wade, 51. "No," murmured Moon sullenly. Then he reached under his coat, pulled out a .45-cal. automatic and fired wildly at District Attorney Myer Kornreich. Kornreich fled from the courtroom and Moon turned toward the bench. Judge Wade jumped to his feet, shielding himself with a chair. "Don't shoot," he begged. "I'm not going to sentence you." Moon fired twice. The judge staggered, clutched his chest and stumbled from the bench. "He shot me, he shot me," he gasped. In front of the empty...
Then in the final period, the varsity defense tightened, allowing only two Brandeis field goals, and these in the last minute and 45 seconds of play. But also in the final period both teams tempers loosened, and with seven minutes to play, Crimson substitutes races off the bench to aid in a scuffle that began with a contest for a rebound...
...Tommy Lewis, 21, was taken out for a rest in the second quarter of the Cotton Bowl game with Rice last week, his Alabama was trailing by only one point. Lewis himself had scored a first-quarter touchdown for the Crimson Tide. But soon, from his seat on the bench, Tommy saw real trouble coming: far downfield, on the 5-yd. line, Rice's Halfback Dick Moegle had broken loose and was spring-legging it up the sidelines, close to the Alabama bench, toward a score...
Flabbergasted officials promptly awarded a 95-yd. run to Moegle-and a touchdown to Rice. Tackier Lewis, apparently flabbergasted himself, ran back to his bench. "I kept telling myself I didn't do it," said he later, "but I knew I did. I guess I'm too full of Alabama...
...Graham's 65%. But versatile Bobby Layne has other virtues. As a swivel-hipped runner, he was the Lion's second leading ground gainer, and unlike most quarterbacks, college or pro, Layne does his own signal calling, whereas Graham gets a flow of instructions from the bench. This week, when Detroit and Cleveland met for the N.F.L. championship, it was quick-thinking Layne v. sharpshooting Graham...