Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continued membership in NATO, may well depend on their help to win Trieste, or a goodly part of the Territory, for Italy. "It is time," said he, "for [the U.S. and Britain] to acknowledge . . . [that] this problem bears on the whole of our international policy . . . and is the testing bench of our friendships...
...Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the right of a preacher in his pulpit to criticize a judge on his bench. It unanimously reversed the conviction of Pastor Ross Allen Weston of the Arlington Unitarian Church for contempt of court after he had preached a sermon accusing a judge of using his office, for political purposes...
Pathos & Dignity. When the movie princess escapes, on impulse, from dull routine and is found, drunk on a sedative, by Reporter Gregory Peck on a bench in a Roman park, Audrey makes her helplessness absolutely winning by her quiet assumption that Peck will tend to her needs just as her personal maid might. "I've never been alone with a man before," she says severely a bit later in Peck's apartment, "even with my dress on," and her trusting innocence becomes a sure guarantee of safety. Audrey Hepburn's princess seems never to forget her exalted...
...most difficult problems for U.S. editors is how to reconcile two traditional U.S. constitutional guarantees: the right of the free press and the right of the defendant to a fair trial before an unprejudiced court and jury. Last week the editors got some unsolicited help from bar and bench...
...Scripps-Howard Press had taken and printed a picture of an arraignment. The photograph showed ex-Judge Nelson Brewer pleading not guilty to embezzlement charges brought against him by a grand jury after the Press had exposed Brewer's alleged misdeeds and forced his resignation from the bench (TIME, Aug. 3). In a front-page editorial, the Press defended its staffers for upholding the "right of the people to know." But President H. Walter Stewart of the Cleveland Bar Association, which helped draft the contempt citation, thought that the Press had missed the point: "The issue...