Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starved. There was just nothing on them, nothing but yellowish or brownish skin stretched, tightly over bones and cavities and all their members hung down loosely, as they lie on men who throw themselves down exhausted to the ground. Some men who were not dead sat idly on a bench nearby. A Frenchman who had drifted up just smiled and smiled in that curious, almost hysterical way that you sometimes smile at overwhelming horror...
...custom, Bernard M. Baruch, 74, sat on a park bench one day last week -this time in London. He was not, as he usually is when sitting on his park bench in Washington, D.C., "in" to reporters. He would talk to only one: a man from Stars & Stripes. Corporal A. Victor Lasky and Baruch sat chatting together for a while, continued the conversation in Baruch's plush Claridge suite. When the phone rang (it was Churchill calling), Baruch, friend of the Prime Minister for 25 years, begged off for the moment. For Bernie Baruch had a point he wanted...
Lullaby. In Chicago, Pfc. Floyd Robertson, back home from the South Pacific, could not get to sleep until he curled up on a bench in the Brookfield Zoo, surrounded by shrieking parrots...
...Ozark standards, he loves Jubilee, hates go-getting, hardworking Abner Holly. But even Jubilee grows impatient with Rove when he neglects his new farm because he has heard the call to preach. The story of how Rove finally wins over Jubilee by driving Abner to the sinners' bench at pistol point is a slight but colorful description of Ozark manners, with humor and charm for the sympathetic reader...
Judge Adlow has presided over cases similar to the recent ones involving "Strange Fruit" and "Forever Amber" several times during his 16-year career on the bench. He vividly recalls an episode in which the Watch and Ward Society urged the arrest of a young man who had been Hawkins lascivious pamphlets in front of the Old Howard...