Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...available, new dormitories hastily constructed when old ones proved insufficient. No one paused to consider seriously whether the separation of class buildings, located in the Yard, from the residential Quadrangle was the best of all possible arrangements, or whether the dormitory system provided the best living quarters for a bunch of young women in search of a Harvard education. In recent years, College officials talked eloquently about the obligation to expand. Stopping their ears to anguished complaints from the undergraduates, they converted singles into doubles with the purchase of several double-decker "bunk beds." Overcrowding reached its peak a year...
...ounce of energy I possess and will use every power at my command to prevent any mixing of white and Negro races in the classrooms of this state." Said he as the Freedom Riders approached: "The people of Alabama are so enraged that I cannot guarantee protection for this bunch of rabble-rousers...
...flow. Said tough, bullfrog-voiced Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor later: "Our people of Birmingham are a peaceful people, and we never have any trouble here unless some people come into our city looking for trouble." Said Alabama's Governor John Patterson: "I cannot guarantee protection for this bunch of rabble-rousers." Not everyone in Alabama was so complacent about the situation. The Birmingham News, which last year vigorously denounced the New York Times for saying that fear and hatred stalked the streets of Birmingham. now conceded that "fear and hatred did stalk Birmingham's streets yesterday...
About ten minutes later, Montgomery cops sauntered up. Explained Police Commissioner L. (for Lester) B. Sullivan: "We have no intention of standing police guard for a bunch of troublemakers coming into our city." The state police came after an hour. Neither group was effective. At one point State Public Safety Director Floyd Mann saved a Negro only by pulling a pistol. A group of young whites poured an inflammable liquid on a Negro's clothes and set him on fire. One Montgomery woman held up her child so that he could reach out and beat on a Negro with...
Desai's mistake was to try to get elected deputy leader of Parliament, a post vacant since the death last March of Home Minister Govind Pant. Desai, though his manner is languid, has won a wide following among Congress Party moderates (he dismisses Marxism as "a bunch of misguided theories"), and as deputy leader he would have been clearly in line for the top job. But Defense Minister Krishna Menon rallied the leftists behind gregarious Railway Minister Jagjivan Ram, 53, the only Untouchable in the Cabinet and a longtime Nehru disciple...