Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little engine called the "Road Transport Gas Turbine" was the sensation of the British Industries Fair, which opened last week at Birmingham. Though it has not yet completed its bench tests, London newspapers hailed the gas turbine as the advance guard of a power revolution. A vehicle driven by a gas turbine, the experts explained, would have no cooling system, no gearshift (except for reversing and extra-low gear), no continuous ignition system. It would be almost vibrationless, would need little lubrication, and would burn low-priced fuel such as kerosene or diesel...
...gave no more hits, no runs, and struck out Ted Williams the next time he came to bat. It was Brissie's first big-league victory (4-2). Said Philadelphia's 85-year-old Manager Connie Mack, who sweated out the game on the bench, "I never felt so tired in all my life." His lowly A's went on to win a third straight game from the highly-touted Red Sox - and to enjoy, while they could, the strange sensation of leading the American League with a fat 1,000 average...
...Communists guffaw. But Bruno perorates bravely: "We must defend the workers of Berlin whose factories and jobs are being stolen from them." In the bored silence that follows, the frantic handclapping of a single S.E.D. delegate echoes hollowly. It is nearly tea time and the British observers leave their bench. The Russian's attention wanders and he files his nails with an air of unbearable boredom...
...Strangled City. The two immaculately uniformed Russian officers stared down expressionlessly from their high official bench at the small woman in navy blue who spoke to the assembly. She was Berlin's Mayoress, grey-haired, matronly, bespectacled Louise Schroeder; and her hands gripped the rostrum firmly. She attacked the restrictions on transportation within Berlin and on the shipment of packages to the Western zones. Prosaic issues? Yes-but they involved orders of the Russian occupying army...
...curves was not much help to Big Bill ("Hard Luck") Bevens, the Yankee pitcher. Cardinal bats pounded Bevens for seven runs before he got them out in the first inning. Then Bill, who had lost a one-hitter in last fall's World Series, walked dejectedly to the bench...