Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will never forget Wallace Wade," Dashiell writes, "leaving the bench during the early part of the 1935 Carolina-Duke game to ask officials to stop Snavely's bench tactics. From that point on, he was under the scrutiny of one of the officials and unable to use the semaphore system. As a consequence, his quarterback, Harry Montgomery, was unable to direct the eleven with the authority and poise he exhibited in previous games. Yet, after the game, Coach Snavely had the temerity to accuse Montgomery of poor field generalship face to face...
...Harlowmen, two linesmen, Dick Pfister and Burgy Ayres, who until today have heard the referee's starting tweet from secure positions on the bench, will this afternoon held down berths of the opening lineup. Pfister has been recalled from the ranks of the blocking backs to plug a gap at right guard. Ayres gets the nod over Lone Star Diets mostly because of his more accurate snap-backs. Diets has shown himself a lion on defense in heavy duty games thus far when Ayres was out with an injury.Pete Elsor's smashing play has won him a regular starting berth...
Either Stu May or Bob Hickey will get the call at the other tackle. Hickey has been starting, but a slight injury suffered last week may bench him. None of the tackles are of exceptional strength except O'Brien and the position is one of the main thorns in Blaik's side...
They take turns presiding over council, which ponders its business on the bench in front of D. L. Reid's general store. Knottier problems they solve by flipping a coin. Their work is strenuous, for "nearly 300 people live in or near Sandy Springs," says Moore. So neither has much time left for farming. They are not making much money out of their joint job. Said Co-Mayor Moore last week: "Our policeman collects the taxes. What is left after he is paid is divided equally betwixt Mr. Smith and me. But up to now we have...
Leftists may claim the book, but they will not like realistic descriptions of the cynical G. P. U. agents, or of the Spanish peasants liquidating their local bourgeoisie: "And I saw the priest with his skirts tucked up scrambling over a bench and those after him were chopping at him with the sickles and the reaping hooks . . . and there was another scream and another scream and I saw two men chopping into his back with sickles. . . ." However he may fancy himself as a leftist sympathizer, as a great and sensitive artist Ernest Hemingway is well over the Red rash...