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Word: benches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in King's Bench Court, a jury heard MGM's sulky defense: Miss Robertson was against "heart interest" in films; she had used her BBC time for "self-exhibitionism"; she had punctuated her reviews with "her charming but extremely cynical little laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Woman Scorned | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...Parliament itself took over Hansard. Until then Hansard printed only ministers and front-bench opposition verbatim; backbenchers were quoted in the third person, inadequately and often inaccurately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Hansard Men | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Heading the mourners' bench: the American Repertory Theater, flatter than a pancake after its first season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Annual Report | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...bench sat Judge James Robert Martin Jr. A strapping onetime Washington & Lee football player, Judge Martin, at 37, is known all over South Carolina as a firm, fair man. He made it plain from the beginning that he would stand for no nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: Trial by Jury | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Durocher would have been proud of the Big Green, In winning the opener, they used such Ebbets Field, specialities as the squeeze play, daring base running, and bench jockeying, and in the second game plate umpire Doc Gautreau was involved in at least three rhubarbs with rate Hanoverians...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Nine Divides with Indians Amid Squeezes, Rhubarbs, Fisticuffs | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

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