Word: batch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the idea. So were many Huks. In the last six weeks, since word of Magsay-say's plan spread into Luzon's hills, 500 Huks have surrendered and applied for resettlement. Three hundred hectares of flat, virgin land in Mindanao have been cleared for the first batch of Huk settlers, who will leave Luzon within the next few months. More are expected. "We keep hammering at them," said Magsaysay, "and looking for them in the jungles, and promising them this green valley where they can have their own homes and live happily with hot coffee...
There's that stereotype that Harvard regularly turns out a batch of parlor pinks and eager Red recruits. It seems to have replaced the older stereotype that Harvard breeds snobs. It is laughable, but not to the somber ones who compile Reducator lists, sit on un-American activities committees, or write columns in the Hearst press...
...damp-eyed notion about the basketball scandal was that the players who dumped games for fixers' gold were just poor little lambs led astray by evil gamblers. Last week in Manhattan, the police dredged up enough new muck to drown the idea. The latest batch of basketball crooks, it appeared, had been just as eager to doublecross each other over the payoff money as to rig games to fit gambling odds...
...only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism plagued U.S. subs for two years); of how the Gato fetched up with an unexploded depth charge on its deck, and gingerly set it adrift in a leaky rubber boat; of how the Angler took aboard a batch of refugees which included a two-year-old, half-Filipino boy who was "smoking (and inhaling) a cigar between gulps of his dinner which he was receiving at his mother's breast"; of how the Tautog, with Mohammedan VIPs aboard, swung its nose toward Mecca at prayer time, three...
...first batch of annual reports for 1950 came out last week. They had a 24-carat glitter...