Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gruff eloquence: "There is time for nothing now but an intense, concentrated effort of muscle, mind and will. . . . The peace and civilization of the whole world depend on the effort we make now to produce arms and win the war. . . . If we waste a minute at our desk or bench we sacrifice a life...
...girl named Virginia O'Brien is surprisingly funny singing torch songs in a monotone, with a completely dead pan. Larry Adler does much better with a harmonica than anyone could possibly expect. And there's a bum (Emmet Kelly) who sits wordlessly on a park bench, removes a ham sandwich from a paper bag, eats it, then lazily brushes his teeth. He provides the one inspired moment of an otherwise uninspired show...
Stahl had nothing to do but to hand him his walking papers when he flared up in the Penn game. Charley Spreyer made his exit less ceremoniously and for different reasons. He simply didn't have enough interest in baseball to warm the bench until June. He was definitely relegated to a substitute's role, and the question of staying out all spring was for him to decide. As for Lou Clay, he has only begun his pitching career at Harvard...
...minute later Mr. Chamberlain rose to explain to a hostile House the British failure in Norway. He had hardly begun when another old enemy made a perfectly timed entrance. The bronzed, white-maned picture of health at 77, David Lloyd George walked slowly along the Opposition's front bench and took his customary seat at the end. Getting there, he stumbled over the outstretched legs of Opposition Leader Laborite Major Clement Richard Attlee...
...Army account, the Garand is accurate at ranges up to 600 yards (far enough for ordinary combat). N. R. A.'s Garand was disgracefully inaccurate at 600 yards and less. On a 600-yard target, with the gun locked in a bench vise, its shots at the end of 60 rounds were hitting six feet below the mark. Reason: ". . .The barrel . . . warped or buckled as it heated from our slow-fired shooting (only 130 shots in three hours...