Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clarkson: The Golden Knights are a frustrated bunch. They have made the ECAC playoffs 26 times and have only captured one title. When it looks like Clarkson will finally win a championship, it starts hitting bricks...
...Knights are a silent bunch. Just when the whole league thought they were out of the playoff hunt, they come back in the second half of the season...
...encourage reporters to talk to Saint Lawrence Coach Joe Marsh, the SLU sports publicity office pays the Sinning Saints--usually a musical bunch--to do impressions of famous martyrs. As Marsh drones on about how good a club he has, a Sinning Saint is up on stage, giving a rendition of Thomas a Becket's last encounter with Henry the Eighth...
...friendly, family- owned eatery where folks slurp coffee and talk about bass fishing, layoffs at the local textile mills and, once in a while, politics. Most of the whites at the cafe describe themselves as evangelical Christians who support a strong military and a balanced budget. A real Reaganite bunch? Think again. "I don't always like the Democrats who run for President," says Bill Morland, 36, a burly telephone lineman, "but it was pretty clear to me from the get-go that Ronald Reagan was out to make the rich folks richer...
Canada's hockey team at least got to the medal round, but a 5-0 loss to the U.S.S.R. deflated much of the country. Backup Goalie Rick Kosti was worried: "Next time they may just grab a bunch of National Hockey League guys at the last minute and see what they can do. Even if they're a great deal better, I don't think it will mean half as much to them as it did to us." Over the entire 16 days, the nearest Canada came to a gold medal was Figure Skater Brian Orser's second-place finish...