Word: benching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here." The accused's square shoulders sagged; then, without a word, his blue eyes glistening, he did a smart about-face and walked away from the bench. Beside him, his bald, hawk-nosed attorney whirled in the other direction, his face flushed. "No statements. Let's get out of here," rasped the usually helpful Emile Zola Berman as reporters swarmed about them. "No statements," the marine echoed dully. He spread his hands helplessly before...
Instead, the bare stage was bathed in cobalt blue, and a giant, soft. flower ball was suspended above a bench, which represented Hans Sachs' shop. For the singing contest of Act III, W71eland tried a bullfight effect, with a 50-ft. high amphitheater surrounding a bright yellow ring, in which the singers performed...
...pitcher's arm. His aim was ornery and his control was only fair-this time he hit Adcock on the thigh. But Gomez did not wait for the call; he turned tail and scuttled for the clubhouse. For a few minutes both teams milled about the Giants' bench, unminding the organist's emergency rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner. Then the game went on (Giants 8, Braves 6). Big Joe Adcock, fined $100 for his part in the skirmish, offered to shake hands and forget about it. Fleet-footed Ruben was set down for three days...
...return. One New York student asked a friend to send a picture of himself when he got back to Red China, standing if life was fine, sitting if things were soso, lying down if they were bad. Back came a picture of his friend, lying on a park bench, his head below the level of his feet...
...name as Harry Truman's most patent political appointee, tends (with some notable exceptions) to follow the lead of the Chief Justice, whether it be Fred.Vinson or Vinson's successor, Earl Warren. HarIan, a "lawyer's lawyer," has broader previous experience at the bar and the bench than any of his colleagues, but he is the court's newest member and his way has not been clearly charted...