Word: benches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deep in the stillness of the forest a stand had been built about halfway up a tree, with a crude bench and an aperture for shooting. All was still. Only Brezhnev's voice could be heard, whispering hunting tales: of his courage when a boar once attacked his jeep; of the bison that stuffed itself with the bait laid out for other animals and then fell contentedly asleep on the steps of the hunting stand, trapping Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovski in the tower above until a search party rescued...
Agrees Washington circuit judge Carl McGowan, "When you go on the bench and you're grappling with individual cases, you find it difficult to implement any theory of judicial review...I find it hard for the good judge to pin any sort of label on himself." Should Ely ever don judicial robes, "he'd be tripped up sooner or later by a case that doesn't fit. Ely on the bench would not be Ely in the book...It would be an evil man who would disregard justice and law to follow his own theory," McGowan says...
...first Harvard goal just 47 seconds into the game and Cornell's Harvard is running for cover, as the fans in Sections 11, 12 and 13 have unleashed a barrage of tennis balls onto the Big Red net minder. As Hayward flees for the protection of his own bench the following make appearances on the ice: a large fish, which Cornell defenseman Joe Gallant flips back into the stands with his stick: a large squid or octopus, which positions itself just outside the Cornell crease; and finally, a live chicken--spray-painted Crimson, of course--courtesy of Kirkland House, which...
Still, appearances can be deceiving. Like the case of Bud that occasionally appears (and quickly disappears) on the bench during games. Or the games reminiscent of Slapshot, fights and all, that the two teams played two years ago ("out of the ordinary," Flynn said). One never knows what to expect from the Kings...
Lately, however, a few extra pounds have team cramping Hall's style considerably, Kleinfelder says her charge is ineffective at her current weight, and Hall has been on the bench during the tipoff of several recent games...