Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summerhouse, found the door and sank to the floor, pulling the sack off her shoulders and fumbling for a match. The pale yellow bud of the flame gave her the tiny refuge, rich in cobwebs and dust. A sodden, half-rotted rug still lay across a low marble bench. Overhead the roof caved in rather drunkenly. 'But it is a roof,' Frossia said, pushed the bolt in the small door, supped off a sour milk tart and a hard-boiled egg, got a rug and some shawls out of the sack, snuffed out the candle and slept...
...life. I am living quietly, and trying to be as cheerful as possible in this war-torn world." He refused to keynote the Republican convention because (since retired Chief Justices can be called for work in the circuit courts) he is still an official magistrate of the Federal bench...
...Tonight, I'm going to mention plenty of bad practices by labor; and plenty by management also. . . . But, gentlemen of labor, I'll tell you something straight. Right now you have a priority at the mourners' bench. . . . You're just where we of management were ten years...
...judges retired to deliberate. One hour later the court buzzer sounded. Senegalese guards snapped to attention. The judges returned to their bench. Their verdict: guilty. Their sentence: death...
During the ensuing concert I wandered through the various rooms greeting old friends-mostly waiters recruited from the Metropole. Sitting stiffly, but beautiful in tails, on a wooden bench near the coatracks were Dmitri Shostakovich and his wife. His sensitive poet's face looked bored. They said that they hoped to go to the U.S. after...