Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wedlocked. In London, John W. Wiseman won a divorce after testifying that his wife had hit him with a pair of fireplace tongs, jabbed him with a knife, thrown boiling water at him, stubbed out a cigarette on his arm, and slapped his mouth with a bunch of keys...
...know why you attach any importance whatsoever to what Mr. Nkrumah says," he recently snapped to touring British reporters. In Togoland, popular Premier Sylvanus Olympio is even blunter. "The man must be crazy," he says. "Does he really think he can absorb us with his puny bunch of tin soldiers and those two minesweepers he calls a navy...
...leveled off, or had dropped a bit. The trouble was that the figures were for only a single month, were already more than a month old, and had been badly distorted by the steel strike, which caused manufacturers to rebuild their depleted inventories in a great hurry, thus bunch the orders in November and December...
Only a few of the terrorists were caught -a ragged bunch of teenagers, made wild by hashish, who babbled incoherently about some juju rites in which they had been branded on the chest with five cuts that were supposed to make them invulnerable to bullets. But the song they had sung was well known-"General Moumié Gets Five Million Soldiers." The "general" referred to: Félix-Roland Moumié, 34, who lives in exile in Nkrumah's Ghana...
...boasts the top man in the $15 billion-a-year textile industry: North Carolina's young-looking, wiry (5 ft. 10 in., 143 Ibs.) J. Spencer Love, 63, who sewed up a bunch of middling mills into one efficient producer called Burlington Industries, world's biggest weaver. By bringing in modern machinery and management and gambling heavily on the wonder synthetics, Spencer Love boosted Burlington's sales from $651 million in fiscal 1958 to $805 million in 1959; in fiscal 1960's first half (ending March 31) profits will almost double, to about $17.5 million. More...