Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highly visible was the new 21-man Cabinet, and most Western observers liked what they saw. Said one: "In general, they're a topnotch bunch of responsible, eager, exceptionally well-educated people." Many of the ministers have lived or have been educated in the West, ranging from Foreign Minister Shabib, who graduated from London University and is married to an Englishwoman, to Finance Minister Salih Kubba, who attended the University of California and has an international reputation as an economist. Seven of the new Cabinet ministers were in Kassem's concentration camp at Rashid military base until...
...long since stopped at 5 Divinity Avenue; Dr. Leary departs from the University to establish headquarters in Mexico, while Dr. Alpert remains in the employ of the graduate School of Education. Is the stoppage of drug experiments yet another encroachment on academic freedom, or is it protection against a bunch of nuts? Should, and can, the University wash its hands of experimentation with drugs, or is there perhaps something in the whole embarrassment that is valuable and worth encouraging...
...every day to his Wilkes-Barre law office. James, a tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 135 lbs.) former coal-mine breaker's boy, once said he "wouldn't cross Broad Street to become Governor." Now he remembers: "The Democrats were in control down in Washington. What a bunch they were . . . When I was inaugurated, there were 1,000,000 unemployed in this state. We had a $90 million deficit. The Democrats knew I wanted to balance the budget. So what do you suppose they did? Every time I was about to balance it, they would slash...
...right front fender. That spun it back a ways, and it was hit a third time, on the left front fender. It was bouncing around like a rubber ball." The accident-report diagram, said a state highway patrol lieutenant, looked "like somebody took a bunch of dominoes and just threw them down. The cars are pointed every which way. and at least a third of them are pointed back where they came from...
...move, but the constant play of light keeps them in motion. Between the clusters is a graceful arch of bars that connects them like golden steppingstones. But Lippold's achievement is that on every level and from every angle the sculptures are successful, as esthetically true as a bunch of grapes. From the lobby, they cut the room's vast elongation without removing an inch of space. From the first balcony, they explode like flowers suddenly bursting into bloom. Higher up, the slender wires attract attention: hundreds of cats' cradles that seem to have the delicacy...