Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong dump-Nixon move during the famed 1952 expense-account troubles that wound up in the Checkers speech) got up at a meeting of state Republican chairmen last week in Washington and warned: "The trouble with Republicans is that when they get into trouble they start acting like a bunch of cannibals." Still, the chairmen themselves were inclined to let Adams stew in the cauldron. Of the 42 attending the meeting, 13 thought that Adams ought to quit; twelve shakily supported Ike ("The coach has left him in. I'm a team player"); the remaining 17 were noncommittal...
...like broke down as: ¶ Too much modern art. An admitted fan of Norman Rockwell's Satevepost covers, Robertson did a slow burn at acres of abstract art and blowtorch sculpture which looked, he said, as if it had been put together by a "bunch of neurotics." "When I walked out, my mind was a complete blank...
...When the Detroit Tigers, picked to roam in the American League's first division, turned out to be a bunch of second-division tabby cats, General Manager Jack McHale did the obvious thing: he fired Jack Tighe, his genial field manager ("Jack tried to be all things to all men"), replaced him with an unknown named Henry Willis Patrick ("Bill") Norman, manager of Detroit's Charleston (W. Va.) farm club, who will be expected to twist the Tigers' tail. The Tigers responded by taking six of the next seven games, including four from the New York Yankees...
...Yung Ah Tim Mini Chapter (Eskimo talk for "strength gone from the body") of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was busy pressing its immunization drive, and Bush Pilot Neal Foster, 41, reported that Nome (pop. 2,000) was having a pleasant day at 45° and that "a bunch of people are getting their boats in the water here now, mostly for seal hunting...
Some of this was hard for De Gaulle's parliamentary adversaries to swallow. But for the colons and balcony generals of Algiers- whom De Gaulle contemptuously dismissed in private conversation as "a bunch of boy scouts"-even harsher medicine was in store. De Gaulle's Cabinet included no diehard colonialists and not one of the men involved in the Algiers insurrection. It consisted instead of parliamentary ministers and nonparty technicians centered around France's three major "democratic" parties. Among them: Socialist Guy Mollet and Catholic Popular Republican Pierre Pflimlin as Ministers of State; Independent Antoine Pinay...