Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bunch of the boys from Judd & Detweiler, a Washington printing firm, decided to get together one weekend last fall for an oyster roast. They scarcely had their schooners of beer operating before, one after another, they broke out in splotches and began to feel palpitation and extreme drowsiness. Comparing notes, they discovered that they had all experienced the symptoms before when drinking. Word got around the plant, and 58 other sufferers stepped forward. Together they petitioned management to explain why they were unable to take alcohol...
Britons are still apt to regard both Americans and Australians as colonials without much culture. In his eigth novel, British Author Nevil Shute has set up a kind of midget contest between these two "uncultivated" cultures. The contest arises when a bunch of American oilmen arrive in Australia's spinifex country (so named for its tough desert grass). The Australians are astounded by the Americans' ability to set up ice-cream plants in the desert, to work like madmen for oil in a country that probably lacks it and, anyway, needs water more. The Americans, in turn...
...having found an economical way of testing whole masses of students, has it sacrificed the individual to a bunch of IBM machines? That, says President Chauncey, is something the colleges and graduate schools must remedy themselves. "It is," says he, "interesting that when colleges first use our tests, almost without exception, they place too much faith in them. We emphatically discourage such dependence. There is no more a right way or wrong way for all colleges to choose their students than there is for all men to choose their wives...
Easy Money. The deal, said Banker Hintz, worked thus: every once in a while Hodge would call up to say that Edward Epping, his office manager, was coming over with a bunch of state checks. "I would say, 'Is everything all right?' and Orv would say, 'Don't worry about a thing.'" Epping would then appear, cash the checks and take away some cash, leaving the rest in a brown envelope marked "Hodge." Ed Hintz, describing himself as "stupid but honest," said he never took a dime for his services, had gone along...
Back in Lusaka, an astonished official commented on Hughes's threeday, thousand-mile detour: "All that trouble just to talk to a bunch of native crackpots? You must be bloody well 'round the bend...