Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yankees aren't spectacular, but then, they haven't been spectacular for the past five years. Their winning combination seems to be a weird mixture of a great tradition, a clever-trading front office, an infinitely resourceful manager, an inexhaustible farm system and a bunch of old pros...
...tutors are a convivial bunch who would rather eat with the undergraduates than their contemporaries. Once a week they eat en masse with the Housemaster and Allston Burr Senior Tutor Daniel Cheever, but have a habit of drifting off to undergraduate tables afterwards. Though tutorial strength easily changes, and with it the number of concentrators, Winthrop has a strong Government staff and Government is the most popular major in the house...
Thanks for the excellent cover stories which have been appearing in your magazine. The best of the bunch is the one on Senator McCarthy [March 8], which gave the facts and let them speak for themselves...
...Bunch of Trouble...
Heavy Babies. Knoke ached for combat, and in the bloody days of 1943 it hit him with a bang. His radio told of "heavy babies in [sector] Anton-Quelle-eight," and Knoke saw some 300 Liberators, "like a great bunch of grapes, shimmering in the sky." He attacked head on and got the surprise of his life. "I almost scrape [one] fat belly as I dive past. Then I am caught in the slipstream, buffeted about so violently that ... I wonder if my tailplane has been shot away . . . Damn all this metal...