Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benning. He has, however, forsworn the added pay of a lieutenant colonel. While in the Army Lieut. Colonel Justice Murphy will probably not be burdened by the routine and the chores of men who are not merely spending summer vacations in the Army—he can always return to the bench. (In his two years as a Justice, Soldier Murphy has handed down only 42 opinions.) However, his social life will be sharply curtailed, which may be a considerable sacrifice for gay (though teetotal) Bachelor Murphy, who seldom misses Capital routs, tirelessly makes all the rounds...
...House rustled and started to rise, but stopped when the familiar white thatch of Lloyd George bobbed up from a front bench on the fight for the historic occasion's last word...
...believe me that this opposition of mine is no mere political dispute; it is a deep conflict of principle. I hold that no man should ascend to the bench to pass upon the rights, even the lives, of other men when he is obligated to a political boss.... Still worse, it seems to me, would be a judge long associated with and long beholden to a man who says that and acts as if the law begins and ends with himself." So wrote Governor Edison of New Jersey...
Robert Frost's most recent work will scarcely add to the controversy as to his place in American letters. "The Witness Tree," the author's first publication in six years, gives the impression that Frost considers his work complete and is ready to leave the rough hewn bench for the easy chair of age and reputation...
Mike Ford, record-smashing pole vaulter, had a tough afternoon. On his first trial jump, he twisted his ankle, as he fell, and thought he was out for the next two weeks. Although he later discovered that he was safe from the bench, he proceeded to smash his favorite pole on another trial...