Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suppose," cooed Nicole Alphand, wife of the French Ambassador to the U.S., "that now we will all have to learn to do zee bar-bee-cue." That has not yet become a problem, but Lady Bird has done her bit for zee folk music. Already a guitar-whacking bunch of folk singers called the New Christy Minstrels have entertained at a state dinner for Italy's President Segni, and Lady Bird recently capped a banquet for United Nations Secretary-General U Thant with a lusty audience sing-along of Puff, the Magic Dragon...
...also great pride and determination. And perhaps Mrs. Eleanor Ring of San Diego, widow of a Navy admiral and an alternate delegate to last week's convention, summed it up best when she said: "What's happened here is a real revolution. We aren't a bunch of extremists. All we are is a fast-growing group of people interested in law and order...
Singing the Internationale, 300 admirers greeted Mexican Artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, 67, on his release from a Mexico City jail, hoisted him on their shoulders and pressed a bunch of red, red roses into his arms. The Mexican government had set the fiery old Communist painter free after he had served four years of an eight-year sentence for inspiring a 1960 leftist riot. But Siqueiros was anything but chastened. "My incarceration has .been but a parenthesis in my political and artistic life," said he, raising his right hand in the clenched-fist salute. And to prove it, he announced...
After one such session in a ninth-floor suite of the St. Francis Hotel, Massachusetts' fiery Congressman Silvio Conte fumed at the ineffectiveness of his fellow Scrantonites. They were, he cried, a bunch of "white-sneakered amateurs," and he added: "I'm ready to pack up and go home...
...like hands," says the school's director, Marcella Morrison, who taught in Chicago public schools before she went to Greenwich for a year of Montessori training at Nancy Rambusch's Whitby School. "They had never been given anything to handle." At first they were a reserved, hostile bunch, and Director Morrison found that she could barely even talk with them. Now the Cabrini kids fondly call her "the tall lady," and follow her through the grounds of the project as though she were the Pied Piper...