Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Switzer came off the bench yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field to tack a highly dramatic finish onto what had been an exciting 13 inning pitchers duel with Tufts. Switzer hit a pinch double with two out and two on to give the Crimson a well earned 3 to 2 win over the Jumbos...
...years ago, some of Mellon's Pittsburgh friends decided that he had been anonymous long enough. They raised more than $300,000 and commissioned architects to design a tribute. Last week, on a triangular plot across from the Gallery, a classically simple bronze fountain was dedicated. A nearby bench of granite bears the inscription: "Andrew W. Mellon. Financier-Industralist-Statesman . . . This fountain is a tribute from friends...
...station continued, more and more records were needed. Candidates made daily jaunts to the Radcliffe music library to get material for programs. A lucky gift in 1945 gave the organization its collection, which is kept with its additions in a long covered bench. A borrowing system was later worked out with McKenna's and Briggs and Briggs...
...Check or Balance? This historic contention, which seems headed for a historic decision in the Supreme Court, was made in Washington district court before Federal Judge David A. Pine, a small, stoop-shouldered veteran of the bench. Now 60, Judge Pine once clerked for Wilson's Attorney General James McReynolds, who later became one of the crustiest conservative Justices of the Supreme Court and a target of Franklin Roosevelt's famed failure, the court-packing plan. A lifelong Democrat, elevated to the district court by Roosevelt in 1940, Pine is known for his independent thinking, dry humor, incisive...
...slowly, very slowly, helped out the most powerful man in Africa: Prime Minister Daniel François Malan. Half supported by his bodyguard, 78-year-old Daniel Malan mounted the steps and disappeared inside. A watching Negro spat. That afternoon, Malan (pronounced m' lawn) squatted on the front bench of the House of Assembly and heard the opposition call him a "Hitlerite," a charge which he has certainly invited but not yet fully earned. His government had just introduced a bill designed to destroy the independence of South Africa's highest court; if passed, it would give absolute...