Word: bench
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Under U.S. law, the President picks federal judges with the advice and consent of the Senate. Under a practice known quaintly as senatorial courtesy, the process has traditionally worked the other way around. A Senator can blackball a nominee to the federal bench in his home state simply by returning a "blue slip" to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate colleagues invariably honor the blue slip, so Presidents long ago learned to let Senators do the choosing...
...from Bobby Allen's opening jumper, Harvard substituted freely throughout the contest, emptying the bench in the last two minutes. McLaughlin even inserted a line-up of two sophomores and three Yardlings at the end of each half...
...first period Fordham pulled to within five, aided by a technical on the Harvard bench and the offensive rebounding of Dud (pronounced "Dude") Tongal, a 7-ft, reserve center from Sudan who spells T. K. Tripucka (the older brother of Notre Dame's Kelly Tripucka...
Typical of Ford's reign at Harvard is the team's victory over Yale this year. Having played almost none all year, one player was brought off the bench in the last ten minutes of the game. This reflected Coach Ford's policy that each team member would get in the Yale game. When this player went on to score the winning goal of the game with ten seconds left to play, it took Ford three days to even talk to the guy, let alone congratulate...
John Fishwick, who has moved up to the seventh spot after spending most of last year on the bench, likewise had an easy evening. Firsh downed Peter Evensen...