Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson nine underwent a scalping at the hands of the Indians yesterday at Soldiers Field to the tune of 9 to 3. With Bud Waldstein on the bench, Brackett allowed five hits in the first two innings before he was replaced by Burgy Ayres...
...afternoon last week, while the lazy Washington sunshine lay thick as honey, two of the most important citizens in the U.S. sat on a park bench in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. Pigeons strutted along the paths, inspecting the ruins of peanuts; sweaty tourists, slung with cameras, pounded past the corroded, green bronze of Andrew Jackson on a hobbyhorse, surrounded by toy cannons...
...POCKETFUL OF CLUES-James R. Langham-Simon & Schuster ($2). Tough Detective Sammy Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no head at all. A story of civic corruption in Santa Monica, with mayor dead and crooked politicians confounded...
This week Chairman Frank still awaited the Presidential order that would send him to the bench. The President seemed to be in no hurry. Although Frank's utilities job was done, he is still wanted in Washington because SEC, Treasury and Federal Reserve have a great deal of interdepartmental work to do on fiscal policy for defense. Frank may stay on the job until the President can find a replacement for Ben Cohen at the London Embassy. Then Cohen can return and be Chairman...
...were then taken to see Admiral Willson, the superintendent of the Naval Academy. After discussion with him, he gave Coach Snibbe and myself three choices: (1) to bench Alexis for the game, and Navy would bench a player of similar ability. (2) to take the game from Navy by forfeit. (3) to permit the Admiral to phone the authorities of Harvard in Cambridge. There can be no doubt that Admiral Willson repeatedly said that it would be impossible to play Alexis against the Academy, and if Harvard insisted, the Academy would forfeit the game...