Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convicted second-string Communist leaders came before him for sentencing last week, New York's Federal Judge Edward J. Dimock was unable to resist a bit of grandstanding from the bench. He asked: "If something like spending the rest of your life in Russia could be worked out as a substitute for prison, would that interest you at all?" The Communists fervently refused-not without some grandstanding of their own. Cried Big Red Hen Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: the suggestion was "comparable to asking a Christian if he wanted to go to heaven right away . . . We feel we would...
Coach Floyd Wilson cleared his bench as the basketball team trounced Tabor...
...Lions also had height, speed, a tight defense, a discouraging accuracy from the foul line, and an endless bench Saturday night at the Blockhouse as they defeated the varsity basketball team...
...between the emotions and the stomach. But always the doctors had to deal with a patient whose feelings (and stomach reactions) were his and his alone, the product of all his heredity and environment. To find out how the stomach would work in an emotional vacuum-and thus establish bench marks for surveying emotional effects-they needed a patient with a hole in his stomach and no emotions. But where to find...
Amid the usual bacteriologist's clutter on Dr. Frederick G. Novy's laboratory bench at Ann Arbor was an unidentified virus which killed rats swiftly. Dr. Novy knew little more about it, but he had 25 test tubes of the virus, flourishing in rat blood. Then he moved his work from one lab to another and the test tubes vanished. That was in 1920, and ever since, Dr. Novy has longed to know what happened to the virus. As the years passed, he was more & more sure of one thing: if the tubes were ever found, the virus...