Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Commons heard from its star reporter, the man who more than any other could cast events in "scale, structure and proportion." Since then the Allied world had passed through the Moscow and Teheran meetings, known high hope and dour doubt. Now,' on his red leather bench, Winston Churchill champed, shuffled a handful of notes, twice rose in a false start before the Speaker gave him the sign. For one hour and 18 minutes, the full, familiar voice spoke...
...When the dark, curly-haired young man in the slate-blue of the Royal Canadian Air Force rose from his bench in the House of Commons, some members did not recognize him. The honorable member for Vancouver North had been excused from the last three sessions because of a more pressing assignment: administrative duty with the City of Windsor Spitfire squadron, which fought in Egypt, Libya, Malta and is now in Italy. He was Flight Lieut. James Sinclair, 35, onetime Rhodes scholar, home on leave...
...members looked to their shrewd Prime Minister for some clue to his election strategy. They knew that they might find the key to it in Parliament, where he has sat for 28 years. A cold personality to the average voter, Mr. King takes on more color on the front bench, becomes a calculating wielder of the oratorical stiletto...
McGinnis and Warren sank a foul apiece early in this canto to prolong the stalemate. Moley touched the pot in an attempt to bat away a low shot by a sailor. The entire Navy bench screamed a protest and precipitated a royal argument involving everyone from Floyd Stahl to an assistant manager. Nothing came of this verbal engagement and the Receiving Station was awarded the ball for a take-out. Harvard took the ball away, and Moley dropped in a set shot on a pivot pass from oDn Geeson to give the Crimson a 41 to 39 edge. A foul...
There have been few such storms in Sir Lyman's long, calm life. He seemed born for the bench. His first break came with his appointment as Junior Counsel for Canada in the international arbitration of the 36-year-old dispute on the Alaska-B.C. boundary. After the hearings he was called to the British Columbia Supreme Court, two years later was elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada. Then 41, he was the youngest man ever to be appointed...