Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spartichino also spoke of a phone call from a lady who told him politicians are "a bunch of thieves, liars...
...Heady Bunch. He got a job as sweeper and water carrier in a Spokane railroad yard, where his only bedroom was a tent, his mattress a bundle of straw. He worked as a porter, scrubbed floors, saved enough money to get to Los Angeles. There a teacher in the public school, which he was attending to learn English, noticed how skillfully he drew the little figures to illustrate maps. The teacher got him into the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. Though he still had to work as a bellhop in winter and a fruit picker in summer, Kuniyoshi...
...made his way to Manhattan, and before long fell in with a group of young men who were all destined to become famous: Stuart Davis, Morris Kantor, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh and Walt Kuhn. It was a heady bunch to belong to, but Kuniyoshi's paintings were...
...most recent historical parallel to Monday's incident occurred during the Civil War, Albion reported. In spring, 1861, a bunch of Confederate soldiers hijacked a coastal steamer and, after an abortive attempt to sneak up on a Union supply ship, turned the passenger boat into a raider...
...week, found him planting gladiolas on the grounds of the borrowed palace where he lives. They offered him a free choice of posts in the new government, hoping to thus put out of business the "government" the Russians claim to be supporting. Souvanna dismissed his visitors as "a pathetic bunch of clowns" and went back to his gardening. "We have been a plaything of the big powers, a doll which has been broken," he said loftily. "It is up to the big powers to mend...