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Word: bench (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zunic harassed the referees almost from the opening jump; he gesticulated wildly, repeatedly stepped on the court, and picked up two technical fouls before the game ended. On the home team bench, Norm Shepard watched more calmly and could hardly be blamed for having a slightly pleased expressing on his face.DICK MANNING (23) bumps GASTREL RILEY, as he drives toward the basket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Five Defeats BU; Blodnick, Sacks Total 39 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Victor Borge, stumbling over his piano bench and in all looking like a drunken Viking, is singlehandedly giving the funniest show on Broadway at the Golden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theatre Topics | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

...persecution" with which Mary retaliated. "we do not know," writes Author Prescott. But the burning of heretics, "a principle taken for granted" in Tudor England, now began on a scale never known before or since. "Women at their marketing, men at their daily trade, the cobbler at his bench, the ploughman trudging the furrow-all learned to know the awful smell of burning human flesh, the flesh of a neighbor, of a man or woman as familiar as the parish pump. Mingling with the steam of washing day, or with the reek of autumn bonfires, or polluting the sweetness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloody Mary | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...Story. In Hamilton, Ont., as he left with his bride Lucy, 78, for a two-week honeymoon, Paul Wilson, 84, happily told reporters how it all began: "We met in the park just four weeks ago. I was sitting on a bench when I noticed a woman beside me. As I turned to look . . . she winked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...Crimeds, behind the power smashes of Johnny lee, and the humpbacked thrusts of Betty "Pi" Kappa, scored three touchdowns, and then had Mockmouse, until then a quiet little manager, come off the bench to kick a field goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mentor Mockmouse Mangles Elis as Crimeds Romp. 23-2 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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