Word: benching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote of 139 to 133, the Tories went down to defeat on a no-confidence motion supported by the combined opposition of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberals (114 seats) and the New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent (27 seats). When the shouting from the triumphant opposition benches had subsided, Clark rose from the government bench to make the despondent announcement. "The government has lost a vote on a matter which we have no alternative but to regard as a question of confidence," he said. "I want to advise the House that I will be seeing his excellency, the Governor...
...Marshall's jocular greeting to a startled Burger. At the height of the Agnew scandal in 1973, Baseball Buff Stewart had his clerks slip him play-by-play bulletins on the National League playoffs between the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Mets as he sat on the bench. One note read: "Kranepool flies to right. Agnew resigns." The Brethren also reports some tantalizing What Ifs. The court came within a vote of, in effect, judicially establishing the Equal Rights Amendment: Stewart held back only because he believed that state legislatures would pass the ERA. Muhammad Ali would have...
Coach: First-year leader Rita Harder, a 1977 graduate of Brown, led the Bruins in scoring as a defenseman her senior year. The first woman to coach the team, Harder brings two years of experience behind the bench to Harvard...
Fleming came up with another excellent performance, scoring a game-high 29 points, despite riding the bench with four fouls for much of the late going and all of the first O.T. Almost unobtrusively, just when Harvard needed a basket, Fleming came up with a hoop. Nine out of ten fron, the foul line didn't hurt, either...
...NOTEBOOK: Greatest cheer of year heard in the Garden last night: to the Texas bench, "You may be winning, but you still have the Shah...