Word: prickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still had banks of elaborately carved, green-cushioned wooden benches ranged on either side, as before, in front of ornate oak-paneled walls. Two red lines, woven into the green carpet and thoughtfully placed just over two sword lengths apart so that overenthusiastic partisans could not prick each other, once again marked the limits beyond which members of opposing parties were not allowed to step in the heat of debate...