Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Have you looked at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive committee?" says Hoffa. "If you cut all the decay out of that committee, there'd be no one left standing up. They're a bunch of tired old men. They couldn't plan nothing." Jimmy may not be the most respectable witness, but he has a point. At 71, George Meany grows more curmudgeonly by the day. The average age of Meany's eight-member executive committee is 66, against 62 for the U.S. Supreme Court...
Venezuela's Prieto Quintuplets are two years old, and as fine a bunch of healthy, pot-banging toddlers as anyone could wish. All of which would keep Mrs. Inés Cuervo de Prieto, 36, and her oilfield worker husband hopping-even if they didn't have a new set of nine-month-old twins and five other kids around the house. Last week Mrs. Prieto sighed and reported that she is again expecting in December. "It's frightening," muttered the father. Wailed the mother: "It's impossible...
...What am I-some kind of criminal?" Mrs. Placente demanded. As scores of other gawking spectators rushed up, Mrs. Placente exploded: "You look like a bunch of lunatics. It should just happen to your wives. Better yet, it should happen to your mothers...
...hand on a cattle drive to Montana. At 15, he pulled a man's weight on the job, running all night with the stampeding herd and even swimming the notorious Yellowstone River (" Tis such a suck to it that to sink is a gone fawn skin") with his bunch of cattle. The work was hard, McCauley recalls, but the company was cheerful. After a rugged day on the trail, there was hot grub and mescal liquor to pleasure a person, and down Mexico way there were bullfights too-though it did "look like a man was getting tola...
...family, to continue the metaphor, is an unhappy bunch. Jane Addams is Mother in her youth, struggling to forge a synthesis of culture and politics-elements that for another generation were efficiently joined in religion. Her father's ghost keeps advocating piety without religious belief, so Jane, while touring Europe, throws up culture as not worth the price and conceives Hull House, the exemplary instance of human relations saturated with politics. Randolph Bourne is a lamentably deformed younger son who seeks to regain his identity at the neighbors' soirees in Greenwich village, but "to his dismay, he discovered that...