Word: benching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd went wild as Harvard forged to this impregnable 20-11 lead, and Freeman's happy teammates carried him back to the bench. With the win over Cornell. Harvard can go all the way to the Ivy title...
Swann is a bespectacled cricket on a piano bench. He and his piano both chirp. Flanders, confined to a wheelchair by polio, looks like a maharajah temporarily deprived of his turban, bearers and ceremonial umbrella. He possesses the slightly disdainful aplomb, though not the waspish irascibility of a black-bearded Monty Woolley. When the two sing together in revue style, their words dance-whether it be a mock blues about the unrequited love of a nearsighted armadillo for an abandoned tank or a toast to the second law of thermodynamics in a foaming Einstein of boozy intellectual suds that tweaks...
Number ten was more difficult; Wilson rarely has occasion to go that far down the bench. Confident that his backcourt was secure with Dressler, Grate, Johnson and Beller, Wilson finally settled on 6-5 forward Jim Griswold to complete the trip roster...
...justices ducked a ruling that would have cut their salaries. In such cases, Alabama law requires the Governor to appoint a special court of five lawyers to hand down a decision. Governor Benjamin M. Miller had no trouble rounding up the required number of lawyers and, once on the bench, the substitute judges soon slashed the regular judges...
...even the temporary honor of serving as a supreme court justice. Those chosen are likely to bend over backward being fair: there is always a chance that they may later appear before Justice Simpson's court. And at 73, he has every intention of staying on the bench indefinitely. Back in 1961, the state legislature passed a law aimed at forcing elderly judges to retire in order to get full retirement benefits. Justice Simpson simply announced that his brethren would rule the law unconstitutional if it ever came before them. This year he ran for another six-year term...