Word: benching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political leverage of Manhattan's two surrogates (annual salaries: $37,000), who last year appointed 428 guardians while handling estates with a gross value of $941 million. Not surprisingly, the big prize in Manhattan's primary last week was a 14-year term on the surrogate bench (see THE NATION), which Fiorello La Guardia once called "the most expensive undertaking establishment in the world...
Howard Worth Smith of Virginia has followed with unsurpassed fidelity the formula of Southern political success that starts an ambitious young man in the statehouse or courthouse, then sends him up to Congress to husband seniority and power. After eight years on the bench he was elected to the House in 1930; he is still there today, still known universally as Judge Smith...
...works three levels below ground as a humidification engineer for Macy's. Days, he plays up in Central Park at putting reality into perspective. He sets up a telescope and peeps at the passing show from behind a screen of greenery. What he sees on a distant park bench eventually lures him out back to where the action is. "It was not so much her good looks, her smooth-brushed brow and firm round neck bowed so that two or three vertebrae surfaced in the soft flesh, as a certain bemused and dry-eyed expression in which he seemed...
There are some petty, albeit indispensible, objective questions on ROTC exams. The cadet is asked to "determine in yards, to the nearest ten yards, the straight-line distance between monumented Bench Mark 295 in grid square FL9975 and monumented Bench Mark 300 in grid square FL9780." He must be able to fill the blanks in the question, "When marching at quick time, swing your arms--inches straight to the front and--inches to the rear of the seams of your trousers...
...American policy, but does not believe this concern will crystalize into outright opposition to American goals or tactics. He finds Wilson's support for the President's position "sincere" and thinks that neither the Prime Minister's increased prestige nor England's increased solvency will tempt the Labor front bench to break with Washington on Southeast Asian policy. Harlech discounts the possibility that a left-wing revolt in the Labor Party will soon force Wilson's hand. No more than thirty MP's would back such a revolt, Harlech estimates, and Wilson enjoys a majority...