Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fyke Farmer, far less pyrotechnical than Marshall, stuck safely to his argument that the Rosenbergs were sentenced under the wrong law. Chief Rosenberg Counsel Manny Bloch was needled by the bench for his belated urging of Farmer's new point of law. "I now adopt it as my own." he said, but he wanted at least a month to prepare adequate argument...
Citation: "Son of the industrial Midwest, who began to practice the gospel of brotherly love in the crowded playgrounds of a vast metropolis, who carried it on to the busy marts of trade and to the worker's bench ... A born leader of men, Martin Durkin understood his fellow men and he loved them...
Borge also has a flair for slapstick. He falls off the piano bench, sits on the keyboard, or trips over the microphone, always unexpectedly and with a look of such complete surprise that it doesn't matter how many comedians have done it before. Borge concludes the evening with his phonetic puntuation routine, familiar now for a decade, and it could have been written that afternoon...
...trip last summer-driving a tank at Willow Run, sitting on the Dodgers' bench, collecting cowboy hats-Feisal showed himself an alert, likable, mechanically inclined youngster, not brilliant, but competent and confident...
Competition on the Bench. Unlike the 1950 team, the Phils this year have one of the strongest benches in baseball. Manager O'Neill just beams when he considers his substitutes: "If any of the present starters slack off, we've got men just as good on the bench. That's what makes me happy-looking at that bench." O'Neill has his choice of two proven first basemen: power-hitting Earl Torgeson, traded from Boston, or slick-fielding Eddie Waitkus, a .289 hitter last season. Other big-league infield substitutes are Jack ("Lucky") Lohrke and Tommy...