Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Mackenzie King sailed for home. With him he carried a handful of confetti he had scooped up after the wedding, and a bunch of white heather that had been given him and the other guests at the wedding breakfast. Said the London News Chronicle as Godspeed: ". . . In a world starved of American currency . . . there is little we can do to help Canada at the moment. But at least we can take the occasion of Mr. Mackenzie King's presence in London to acknowledge our great debt, and to reaffirm that nothing shall be left undone which might...
After Blue forward Jack Calkins had scored the normal aggressiveness of the Cantab rugby-footballers waned temporarily. A fleeting spark of the form they displayed against a smooth Princeton bunch returned five minutes later as outer Bill Dawson bounced a high pass to John Spivak, who headed it into the opposition ball basket...
...obliged to combine his teams of 1937 which beat an undefeated Yale 13-6, and the 1941 squad, "dear to my heart because of adversity." But despite some of the drudge character of football today, Harlow is quick to insist that the has never gotten more out of any bunch than his present team. "They have given everything they have," he says. "They have done everything I have tod them...
...bunch giggled about the frat parties, which started with beer on Friday and evolved to milk punch on Sunday afternoon. Then there is the gay rivalry-and blue and red paint-and the bands-and the street cars, open air ones, Cathy fell off one two years ago, and her date didn't realize it till three blooks later. By that time some Yailed had kidnapped her. She never did see that Harvard man again...
...leveling a stream of earthy adjectives at the men responsible for Plan E, a system of administering civic duties through an appointed city manager, a few shrewd politicians seek to divert attention from both their own incompetence and the achievements of Plan E. Cries of "political domination by a bunch of Tory Rowers" cannot entirely cloud the record. Over a six year period the proponents of Plan E have accomplished a consolidation of four city departments with resultant economies, four playgrounds have been rebuilt and eight more are under construction, the public libraries received 40,000 new books...