Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Association: "There could be a point of no return here. If racing is to be gouged just for state income, the sport could be killed." Says a New York racing official: "If it's money they want from pari-mutuels, why don't they just run a bunch of mice around a track twelve months a year?" Even a few bettors gripe. Says one: "I don't care what the longer season does to horses. What does it do to humans? They're giving us too much opportunity to lose...
...enameled gentry of Palm Beach, buffed to a high gloss for opening nights at the swank Royal Poinciana Playhouse, struck Musical Conductor Fred Waring, 62, as nothing more than a bunch of well-heeled Beachniks. "The biggest, overdressed, overstuffed snobs I've ever seen," said Waring, closing a one-week Playhouse stand con brio. "They leave early, and are past masters in the art of rudeness...
...bunch of the beards were whooping it up at a Greenwich Village Java saloon called The Bitter End and one of the poems recited was Ode to a Champion: Cassius Marcellus Clay. Its author? Who else but Prosodic Pugilist Cassius Marcellus Clay, 20, getting ready for his Madison Square Garden skirmish this week with Heavyweight Doug Jones. Quoth Cassius: "The word's been passed around that I'm a very charming guy./ the greatest fighter that ever lived,/ and I'll gladly tell you why . . ." Of course if he turned out to be wrong, Cassius could just...
Sloan's description of the outgoing officers as "a bunch of finks," brought laughter from the membership. Then, calling Wallison "Mr. Madison Avenue," Sloan promised "no rigged elections" and "no finky flnesse" with Grizzle...
...buildings gutted by Soviet tanks during the 1956 rebellion, queue up for the consumer goods that always seem to be in short supply. The Red army still stays prudently hidden in its camps ringing Budapest, and the hated AVH secret police have been replaced by a less conspicuously murderous bunch known as BKH, but nobody is enthusiastic about the "permissiveness" shown lately by Premier Janos Kadar...