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Word: benching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elegantly suited and vested, Premier-Designate Evariste Kimba sat on the front bench of the crowded Chamber of Deputies and tried to look confident. Three rows back, his predecessor, Moise Tshombe, tapped his foot nervously. As the Congolese Parliament met in joint session last week, about the only empty seat in the Palais de la Nation was the leopard-skin presidential chair itself: President Joseph Kasavubu, who could not vote anyway, had gone off to attend a memorial service for the nation's civil war dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Fight for a Leopard-Skin Chair | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

With a nod and a broader smile than he usually flashes at such ceremonies, Chief Justice Earl Warren, 74, looked down from the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court and intoned proudly: "Mr. Warren, I welcome you to the bar of the court." And with that, the Chief Justice admitted his son, Earl Warren Jr., 35, a Sacramento attorney, to practice before the Supreme Court. Earl Jr. was formally presented to the Justices by an old judicial hand and personal friend, Washington Trial Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 26, 1965 | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...actual "raid" consisted of one mad charge at three young ladies clad in leotards. The floor around the bench was strewn with undergarments, and the instructions were "Grab what's on the floor but leave the girls alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: They Came to Purloin Her Panties, But Hope Diamond Was Not There | 11/24/1965 | See Source »

...donated to about six of our staunchest supporters. Ordinarily, this would be fine--we could see them and they could hear us and maybe their enthusiasm would be contagious. BUT, the seats were on the side of the field where the players sit; directly in back of the Boston bench, in fact...

Author: By Maxine S. Paisner, | Title: I Was a Radcliffe Cheerleader...and Lived to Tell the Tale | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...think that Harvard is prejudiced against female cheerleaders (and you're right) but it's got nothing on Coach Holovak. We'd been warned before the game to get nowhere in the vicinity of the Patriots' bench, and if we had to pass by, to do it as quickly as was humanly possible. So we gave our fans a few quick "Rahs" as we dashed by, but they really didn't have any time to respond...

Author: By Maxine S. Paisner, | Title: I Was a Radcliffe Cheerleader...and Lived to Tell the Tale | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

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