Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doesn't take long for him to bounce back, though. After he has eased his cough by sucking on an orange, splashed around for 15 minutes in the shower, and stretched out on the nearest bench of table, he is already looking forward to next week...
Margarita obliged, and was prompty mouse-trapped completely out of the play, leaving Vince a hole big enough to drive a truck through. Brother Bob, on the Crimson bench at the time, tried to deny that the man mouse-trapped was Attilio, but with corroboration by the sports scribes, made like the Arabs...
Although trainer and team doctor must be on the bench for all games and contact scrimmages, both Cox and Doctor Quigley are generally liberal about letting surface-injury victims go back into the fray. Open gashes, which bother some spectators, are stitched up right on the bench, adhesive tape is slapped over the wound and the player rushed back into the game if he's needed. "Professional hockey players aren't the only ones who compete with stitches in them." says Cox, "but the whole thing is pretty ugly business and we don't like to talk much about...
...convicted men were leaders of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party. Wrote Warsaw's Communist paper, in a blood-chilling front-page editorial titled The Analogy: "In Bulgaria, the leader of reaction, Nikola Petkoff [see above] has been seated on the defendant's bench next to his subordinate, Ivanoff. In Cracow, Mierzwa [Mikolajczyk's subordinate in the Polish Peasant Party] is seated on the bench. Will the similarity of events end there...
...grumbled about playing on the same field with a Negro. They changed their minds-under pressure. Philadelphia was worse, because there the opposition had the open support of Phillies Manager Ben Chapman. He bawled insults at Robinson from the dugout. Chapman's second-division Phillies, notoriously the crudest bench-jockeys in baseball, chimed in. Says Rookie Robbie: "I'd get mad. But I'd never let them know it." The Phillies management finally called down Chapman. He had his picture taken with Robinson to prove to everyone that the ugly reports weren't true...