Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a picked group of Common Market Eurocrats. By now the businessmen, whose questioning of experts had been diffident at first, had become forthright. When the Common Market's Vice Chairman Robert Marjolin, a Yale-educated French Social ist, called for questions, he was asked: "Why should a bunch of American capitalists put their trust in a bunch of Socialist Eurocrats...
Before the squad cars charged up to the scene, however, one of the demolition workers got behind the wheel of the Ford, started it easily, and hid it in the partially wrecked building. When the police arrived, they found nothing but a bunch of singularly unhelpful workers. The cops sped away in search of the stickup...
...getting medals in Hollywood ... I took my oath to defend the Constitution of the United States and that's what I'm going to do. And then we're 'letting the soldiers down' when we refuse, are we? Why those bastards! Just a bunch of thimble-riggers, that's what they are, them and that-that-that-man in the White House...
...they did. In mid-June, a bunch of cocky, naive college students went to jail with the shock troops of the Movement (who were going anyway) and two or three weeks later, they came out again - tired. Jail was a sobering experience. Beating acquires wholly new meaning when you are beaten for half an hour by a karate expert. 'Doing your time' is much more than a collegiate aspiration when you do it in a four-man cell with ten or twelve drunks and petty crooks who all know you're a "nigger-lover" and literally shake with their hate...
...nothing much got done, for, suddenly, the summer was over, school was about to open and the troops moved north to tell their tales of jail and suffering. No social walls had come tumbling down. No real organizing work had been done. There hadn't been time. A bunch of college students had had a titillating (the newspapers would call it meaningful) summer...