Word: bench
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a trainer's cigar box, suddenly smash their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against the enemy, then sit alone, gasping and retching on the bench. When Alda final ly takes the field to re-enact Plimpton's quarterbacking blunders, he becomes an unwelcome intruder, making a simple game out of a serious ritual filled with thunder and grace...
...Crimson is still plagued with injuries to key performers. Outside Gerry Montero and fullback Bob Gray, who watched the Crimson's losses to Brown and Army from the bench, will miss the action with the Elis, as will reserve goalie Jim Sawhill...
Fullback Bob Gray and outside Gerry Montero watched the game from the bench. High-scoring star Peter Bogovich sat out the first half, while linemates Solomon Gomez, Captain Scott Robertson, and Jaime Vargas limped through the game with an assortment of leg injuries. Goalie Richie Locksley, whose bruised ribs forced him out of the Brown game, managed to play for the entire contest...
Humphrey began as the mayor of Minneapolis, soon possessed an exaggerated reputation as a radical. Eventually he chose to fight liberal fights from the front bench, sacrificing individualism for advancement in the Sen ate and then to the vice presidency, losing old friends and associations and gaining new ones along the way. Now he has the backing of George Meanv and Henry Ford, Lyndon Johnson and Edward Kennedy, Richard Daley and George Ball...
...DANIEL: So far, I have not touched on my motives in the Czechoslovak question. I do not admit guilt, but have I any regrets? To some extent, I do. I regret very deeply the fact that with me on this bench is a young man whose personality is still unformed. I am speaking of [Vadim] Delone [a 21-year-old student and poet sentenced to 34 months at hard labor], whose character may be crippled by being sent to a prison camp. I regret, too, that the gifted, honest scholar [Konstantin] Babitsky [a 32-year-old Moscow philologist...