Word: benching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Madness of King George" tells the story of George's decline and recuperation. At the same time, it follows the scheming of his son, the foppish Prince of Wales. George IV is tired of warming the bench for George III, and plans to take advantage of his father's illness to claim the throne...
...autobiographical fiction (The Company She Keeps, The Group) was sexually brisk and unromantic. It is where many readers first encountered a young woman seduced by an attractive stranger without suffering any ill effect. At a time when the heavy moral lifting was thought best left to men, Arendt bench-pressed the weight of the world in books with such grave titles as The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition and The Life of the Mind. Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) gave the world a deeply disturbing concept, "the banality of evil." "Who does she think she is, Aristotle?" cracked an editor...
...were camping out on a floor littered with phone messages. Gingrich, arriving late, waved his hand at the mess and invited Murdoch and two of his lobbyists to an ornate reception room down the hall. There, as caterers set up for a Democratic dinner, the two sat on a bench and talked for 10 to 15 minutes. Their chat was mostly about the election that had swept the Republicans into power three weeks earlier, their aides told TIME, but drifted into the subject of the TV business...
Jason Karmanos echoed his teammates frustration after the ruling. "We all thought it had gone in, and [Konik] was so angry when he came over to the bench, I knew he couldn't fake that...
...should have been so lucky. Allowing prayer in schools is as popular as allowing gays in the military was not. Hardly a semester passes without some school principal or state legislature trying to smuggle it back in, past the baleful eye of the A.C.L.U. and its postulants on the bench. The 1962 Supreme Court decision that banished prayer from public school classrooms is one of the most unpopular the court has handed down, and surely the only one that unites Newt Gingrich and D.C. mayor-elect Marion Barry...