Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bench against the wet canvas wall a towheaded young Ranger, his left forearm swathed in a bloody dressing made from the sleeve of his green fatigue jacket, asked with weary anxiety if anyone had seen any others of his company. Then, through the tent entrance came a 19-year-old boy. His eyes stared unseeing, he had the face of a man of 90. A chaplain gently forced him to sit down, asked his name and his outfit. The boy did not hear...
Judge Learned Hand, 79, once. called "the greatest living American jurist" by the late Supreme Court Justice Cardozo, announced that he was retiring from his seat on the United States court of appeals, second circuit, after 42 years on the federal bench. Nominated by the New York City Bar Association as a successor: Federal District Judge Harold Medina...
Author Mailer's new novel is hauled from the literary graveyard of the '30s, when "social consciousness" was in vogue. Like other books of the school, it tries to pin the blame for human evil on the favorite villain of every park-bench anarchist, "the system...
Stone said that his request for retirement was not a sudden decision, but that he had been contemplating leaving the bench as long ago as last summer. He had been under fire recently for his releasing of a sex offender; the Governor's inquiry had been started on a recommendation of the administrative committee of the district courts...
Early this week Bevan defended his act in the House of Commons, speaking from a back bench traditionally reserved for ministers who have resigned...