Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courage or insults with independence." Dissenters Black, Frankfurter and Douglas held that the attorneys were entitled to trial by jury in another court. Added Douglas and Frankfurter: "One who reads the record . . . will have difficulty in determining whether members of the bar conspired to drive a judge from the bench, or whether the judge used the authority of the bench to whipsaw the lawyers, to talk and tempt them, and to create for himself the role of the persecuted...
...front bench of Labor gasped in surprise at the size of Be van's rebellion. Attlee, mild in appearance but a ruthless taskmaster in matters of party regularity, jerkily jumped to his feet, left the House without a word, and took the train to his Buckinghamshire home. But next day he ordered an emergency meeting of all 294 Labor M.P.s for this week, to consider the defiance of his leadership. In rebuttal, brash Nye Bevan demanded and got an emergency session of Labor's executive committee, to be held later in the week. Bevanites are outnumbered...
Herbert has a facial tic, especially when, as usual, he is worried. His eyes blink of themselves. On a park bench or in a railway train he is often startled, in the middle of agonized reflection about the insecurity of everything in the world, by the rising up of some furious young woman to call a policeman or pull the communication cord. And when he tries to explain himself, he is seized with a stammer which still further alarms the lady. The situation, as he expected from the beginning, then becomes hopeless. The lady has hysterics, and Herbert can only...
...front," he was able to retort: "Go round to the side, Madam, and you'll see that I am." When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans." He liked to believe that his life was "centric," though it struck most people as eccentric beyond belief. He would take a bath, step out, and then step in again, shouting angrily: "Dammit, I've been in here...
...sophomores started the last game for Yale, while two of last year's starters rode the bench. Yale Coach Howard Hobson last used sophomore Jim Plecas and John Weber at the forwards, sophomore Spence Schnaitter at center, and senior guards Captain Ed McHugh and Jerry Labriola, but he may change tonight and put in Bob Harding and Dave Sears at the forwards. No matter who plays for Yale, the Elis will have a slight height advantage over the Crimson...