Word: bench
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of jail terms or fines. Circuit Court Judge Sam Harrod III, 37. often used to sentence young offenders to haircuts, loss of their drivers' licenses or a day of picking up cans and bottles along the highways. Says the judge, an eleven-year veteran of the bench in rural Woodford County. Ill., "The courts have become the parents of last resort. I was trying to get young people to change their ways before they got sent to prison." But the American Civil Liberties Union complained to the Illinois Courts Commission that his sentences were violating the defendants...
Despite the disappointing loss there was at least one bright spot for Harvard. Guard Tamar Atinc shot four-for-nine as she came off the bench to spark the lagging Crimson offense with outside buckets in the second half...
Finally, that swingman, sixth man, Hooft, saw enough and came off the bench, stole an errant Dartmouth pass, and went in for a lay-up to finish the uprising...
Then came the bad news (for Dartmouth, that is). Edmonds picked up his third personal foul and headed for the bench at 8:43 of the first half. Edmond finished the game with only 14 points...
Hooft came off the bench and began his plexiglass-pummeling performance to make it 13-8. Cy Booker then went into his rim-bending routine with a swooping slam dunk to keep the lead at five points eight minutes into the game...