Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole place has a precious air of olde fashioned Americanness: wooden beams on the ceiling, pewter saltcellars, and murals. One has the merry muffinman wheeling his muffincart past a streetsign marked "Muffin Sq.," and another shows a bunch of Harvard students alighting from their horses, obviously discussing the local muffinhouse, which serves simple but solid fare...
With the experts and the figures so unequivocally in agreement, why is it that neither Congress nor the Administration can harmonize? "It's like a bunch of people walking around in high elephant grass," says one Treasury official. They were in brief sight of one another last month at the height of the gold crisis. Sobered by the threat to the dollar, Congress seemed to be less hostile to the notion of raising taxes in an election year; the Senate went so far as to attach a 10% income-tax surcharge to another revenue measure-together with a stiff...
...many such communities, the good citizens of Tarbox accept health, wealth and wisdom as natural perquisites of their membership in the American middle class. Tarbox is a fun place too. Almost any Sunday, one can find a bunch of the fellows tossing around a basketball in somebody's driveway, while the women chat and watch and the children scramble and squabble. There's likely to be a spirited game of tennis at John and Bernadette Ong's place, followed by a few tall, cold vodka-and-tonics perhaps at Matt and Terry Gallagher's. The women...
...story on the Riot Commission Report I was quoted as saying that "the Administration consists of nothing but a bunch of patio liberals." I call your attention to the fact that his phrase was used not by me but by Secretary Wirtz, who doubtless had in mind Ivy League university professors much more than the hard-nosed liberals of the Administration who have lately been so busy putting out fires in Washington. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Director, Joint Center for Urban Studies
...sure this analysis would have been done by Negro social scientists," he said. But Moynihan prefers to emphasize the "scandalous" reaction of the President whose most extensive comment on the Report has been to recommend it to a luncheon audience of businessmen. "The administration consists of nothing but a bunch of patio liberals," Moynihan charged, including Vice-President Humphrey who has hinted that the administration was displeased to find no mention of its own legislative achievements in the Report