Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explanation for Tom Murphy's change of heart was apparently the advice of his fellow jurists, among them, the cousins Learned and Augustus Hand of the U.S. court of appeals. They felt that federal judges should not accept administrative jobs without resigning from the bench. More important, Murphy had found out that he would not get the tools he needed for a thorough stable-cleaning; he was to get no powers to subpoena witnesses, or to cite them for contempt if they proved balky. The job had been offered as a pail-and-broom detail, but what Tom Murphy...
...Words. One day Padilla's mother got to see her son. Beaten almost beyond recognition, he managed two words: "Communicate Magsaysay." But when Magsaysay got to Negros Occidental, it was too late. Padilla's body lay on a prison bench dripping with blood. Police pointed to bullet wounds in his back and explained that he had been shot while trying to escape. The autopsy showed, however, that Padilla's legs were broken before he was shot; he couldn't have taken a step. Magsaysay sent the body back to Manila for a military funeral and grimly...
...last quarter that counts, and it was in the last quarter that B.C. showed why it has now won six straight games. The Eagles, who had starters in last year's 76 to 48 win over Harvard sitting on the bench, applied a full-court press. With a wealth of experienced reserves, B.C. coach General Al McClellan could tell his men to run and they could respond...
...game; other Princetonians claimed that Myers had also wound up another play by booting a Tiger lineman in the back. ¶The rough & ready Southwest Conference produced a "grudge game" which even had the eyes of Texans popping. At one point a Texas substitute hurtled off the bench to slug a Texas A.&M. player; before the game was over, the fans had engaged in a free-for-all, and the referee had paced off 140 yards in penalties...
Working with an outfit whose business it is to get its flunkies as judges on the bench, Ryan does a good job of parading around in a beautiful tweed coat hitting his cohorts, slapping women, and getting his younger brother out of trouble. Mitchum is on the side of the goodies in this production and does a good job as the clean...