Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mush Note. In Springfield, 111., after handing the police chief a bunch of forget-me-nots and noting that he tends to get sentimental when he has had too much to drink, Alfonso Senor admitted that it was his fourth sentimental occasion with in a week, got six months at the Vandalia Penal Farm...
Last month hundreds of hapless Guineans were arrested on suspicion of plotting the overthrow of the government on behalf of "French colonialism and its black lackeys." They were an unlikely bunch of plotters: petty crooks caught black-marketing, government officials charged with smuggling trunkloads of the new currency over the border, and young intellectuals led by brilliant, French-educated Ibrahim Diallo, a former civil servant who had asked Touré's permission to form an opposition party...
...Modesto, Calif, between Australia's Herb Elliott, the best in the world, and lanky Dyrol Burleson, the best in the U.S. But five minutes before starting time Elliott withdrew because of a strained knee tendon, and suddenly Burleson was left with no one to whip but a bunch of also-rans, including a distance runner named Jim Beatty, 25, who felt so out of place in the event that he frankly said: "I'm no miler...
...Stroke Harry Moseley in a traditional ceremony. It was the first jersey Boyden had lost since high school, and he promised that he would win a Cornell shirt after the Olympic trials in July. But Cornell's Coach Sanford is just beginning to develop his young bunch. Said he: "We still have to learn how to sprint. I'm positive this crew of mine is far from its peak...
...ranged through Central America toppling governments and creating the sprawling United Fruit Co. banana empire are long gone. There was Lorenzo Dow Baker, the founder, a Massachusetts schooner captain who got into bananas back in 1870 when he found that the fruit he skeptically picked up for 25? a bunch in Jamaica fetched $2.50 a bunch or more in New York. There was Minor C. Keith, who hacked through Central American jungles a railroad line that, according to legend, cost a human life for every tie in the first 25 miles. And then there was Russian-born Sam Zemurray...