Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the twelfth place (out of twelve) in the Opposition's "shadow cabinet," which faces the real cabinet across the open floor of the House of Commons. It was a Pyrrhic victory for Nye, for as one of Labor's official Parliamentary spokesmen, sitting on the front bench Nye would now have to preserve at least a semblance of party unity, behave politely to Opposition Leader Attlee and save his insults for Prime Minister Churchill, whom he once described as "a bloated bladder of lies." From across the way, Churchill would doubtless find him, as he had before...
Embroiled in the struggle for power in the Tredway Corp. are five vice presidents. They are Jesse Grimm, the up-from-the-bench production man who demands perfection from his machines but is "too quick to excuse the lack of it in his people"; Don Walling, the fair-haired boy of design and development who seems to "skitter about over the . . . surface" of a problem, gathering up unrelated facts, and then solves it with "a brilliant flash of pure creative imagination"; J. Walter Dudley, the sales boss, a "runner who [runs] without a goal" and thinks that if he runs...
Every year, about this time, varsity basketball coach Norm Shepard faces the asine headscline, deciding which latter-winners from last year's squad he has to keep on the bench. In each of the last three years, freshman coach Floyed Wilson has developed several fine varsity prospects, and each time at least two of them have moved directly to the varsity's starting vice, replacing the more experienced upperclassmen...
...predicting any won-lost record yet, but he feels the team is good enough to beat almost any opponent on its schedule. Much depends on the newcomers, who are unusually mature as sophomores come, but sophomores nevertheless, and inexperienced in varsity competition. And lastly there's that wonderful bench, full of returning latter winners-usually the dream of "My coach, but only a source of bewilderment for Mr. Shepard...
...last-minute change, the Honorable John Biggs, Jr. Chief Judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals, 3rd circuit. Will substitute for Judge Herbert Goodrich of the same bench, and mediate Cardozo vs. Casner clubs Tuesday...