Word: benchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rising in India's lower house of Parliament, Jawaharlal Nehru, 69, gripped the teakwood Prime Minister's bench and described, in blunt language he had never used before, the "continuing aggression" of Red China's troops against India's northern borders. The frontier incidents were clearly a Chinese testing of India's willingness to defend itself. "We must not become alarmist and panicky and take wrong actions," cautioned the ever-cautious and neutralist Nehru, but then he added ringingly that "there is no alternative to us but to defend our borders and our integrity." M.P.s...
...Long? The question of time preoccupies everyone. The stark fact is that what might have satisfied the African a few years ago no longer does. In Britain's Central African Federation, the old "Europeans Only" signs have faded from the park benches, but in the wake of all the mass arrests of African nationalists, the interracial bench has little impact even as a token of intention. In South Africa, where the police are strong and the blacks still leaderless, the system may last for years to come. Elsewhere, the chief pastime of the African politician is to draw...
...statistics are suddenly realizing that grand old names are nearly all gone, have gradually been replaced by a whole set of new faces. This is the year Ted Williams (.239) is 40, and seems ready to quit. This is the year Stan Musial (.260) is 38, and riding the bench. A new generation of stars is coming of age. Significantly...
Rocky's feats dazzle no one more than Rocky. After hitting a home run, he roams the Indians' bench, bellowing with glee, hunting down teammates, who feign terror as they try to preserve their hands from his numbing clasp of self-congratulation. Every locker room in the league has echoed to his rallying cry: "Don't knock the Rock...
...Cleveland's easygoing Tito Francona, 25, is the late-bloomer of the season, a player who was shunted in three years' time from the Orioles to the White Sox to the Tigers to the Indians, where he began the year on the bench. In Cleveland, Francona was soon coaxing players to pitch to him by the hour in the empty stadium, gradually improved a swing that had always been basically sound. Manager Joe Gordon took a hand. "He got me to swing down on the ball-what he calls 'tomahawk' it-so I'd level...