Word: benching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million Americans are hunters, and though accidents kill up to 800 of them each year, few would want their sport circumscribed?or destroyed?by too-stringent gun laws. Thousands of other Americans engage in such pastimes as skeet and trap shooting, muzzle-loading competitions with old-style rifles, and bench-rest shooting, whose enthusiasts weigh their powder, mold their bullets and come close to perfect marksmanship...
Boot Off the Bench. Halas' sideline pyrotechnics will be missed most by Chicago fans. Teeth clenched, hands thrust deep into his overcoat pockets, he raced up and down the field, bellowing at his players, badgering officials, blatantly coaching from the sidelines. Trying to lend moral assistance to a Bear field-goal attempt, he once booted a 240-lb. guard right off the bench. Another time, he curtly ordered a rookie: "Taylor, we've run out of timeouts. Go in and get hurt...
...four embryos that could be flushed out, sex-identified and selectively reimplanted. Since milk-producing cows are far more valuable than a plethora of bulls, the practice promises economic advantages. Human sex determination will be far more difficult, the scientists caution. Obtaining human eggs, fertilizing them on the laboratory bench and culturing the early embryos to the point where sex identification is possible are techniques still far beyond today's laboratory skills. "We may get to human embryos," says Edwards, "but that will be in the long, long future...
Find a good bench, from which to view...
Magruder served on the Federal bench--the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston--for 20 years after his appointment by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. He ruled on a number of important issues, including the appeal of the denaturalization of gambler Frank Costello...