Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leading 35 to 18 at the half, the jayvees, emptied the bench during the last half using all their reserves. Height was again a Crimson forte and, with the backboards monopolized, Suffolk was forced to plunk from deep court...
Although forwards John Altrocchi and Bill Mobraaton were promoted to the Varsity last week, neither has seen varsity action yet and Kopp might use them tonight rather than let them sit the main feature out on the bench...
...last vestige of the Cosgrave government that preceded Dev, had the best electioneering machine (including a company of blue-kilted girl pipers that took Dublin by storm). But-as one of their critics said-"the undertaker's union is working against Fine Gael." Three of their aged front-bench deputies had died during the campaign. And nobody expected much of the Laborites, the fourth party...
Facing Stalin in the long, vaulted, white, brown and yellow Andreevsky Hall, 1,300 deputies sat at school-bench desks. Round-eyed, shaven-pated Russians in business suits sat beside slant-eyed Uzbeks and Tadjiks in embroidered tyubeteiki (skull caps). They were handed the biggest budget in Soviet history: 387.9 billion rubles ($74 billion). The military would get 17%, compared with 18% of a 371 billion ruble budget...
...Keep firin' at 'em, boys," the poker-faced Major on the end of the Army bench kept drawling Saturday night at the Blockhouse. The Cadets kept firing away. They hit often enough to win in overtime, 59 to 57, despite the fact that the Varsity at times played some of its best ball of the year. It was the third straight overtime game the Crimson has lost this season...