Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burly mortal visited the Olympian chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court one morning last week to see his former Cabinet colleague, Tom Clark, mount the bench for the first time. Confronted by a court attache as he searched for a seat, the visitor announced himself: "I'm Secretary Johnson." "What are you secretary of?" asked the attendant, unimpressed...
...talking idly a few minutes more. Harry was expecting a phone call, he said. Finally the airport loudspeaker blared out that Bridges' plane was loading. "Well," said Harry, "there hasn't been any phone call so here it is." He cocked a foot up on a nearby bench and began talking slowly so that reporters could get it all down: "I have negotiated settlement of the longshore strike...
...cause of the break-off after 1910 was a tragic accident in the game that year. The Army coach refused to remove his left tackle, Eugene Byrne, despite the fact that he was so obviously exhausted that Haughton sent a request to the West Point bench asking that he he taken...
...small number of unusually qualified girls" into the Law School next autumn. The enlightened will remember, with Dean Griswold, that "women have come a long way since they were first admitted to the American Bar Association in 1918," and further, that "many now serve with distinction on the bench...
...below, a good Harvard team, still badly shorthanded because of injuries, was putting up a game fight against a superb Cornell squad. But the grandstand quarterback didn't see it that way. First he started working over the coaches, as if he expected Art Valpey to rush off the bench and single-handedly half the Big Red tide. But when the Crimson made a good gain on a tricky play, the coach never got credit for devising the play and teaching the team how to execute...