Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nice pair of legs and a stubborn spirit. She saw no reason why she should hide her legs under long skirts, why her draftsman husband should be put to the expense of buying her a new wardrobe, or why the women of Texas should be pushed around by a bunch of Paris and New York designers...
Hmmm. In San Francisco, Dr. Robert C. Miller, director of the Steinhart Aquarium, excitedly opened a shipment of Hawaiian fish, was considerably let down to find a bunch of humuhumuhiukole; he had ordered humuhumunukunukuapuaa...
...fine young man, ambitious, though a little wild; while the minor characters could be transferred to another such movie as easily as a Ford part can be replaced. At best, they bustle through the plot using the lowest common denominator of human action, and at worst they are a bunch of Martians imitating home sapiens, having seen them once, from a lunar distance. So when the technicolor and Maureen O'Hara have cased to dazzle his eyes, the movie-geer will start to fidget in his upholstered chair, and hope that this one will turn out a little different...
...Banquet placecards were arranged so that French-speaking and English-speaking delegates did not sit next to one another. Arrangements were made for entertaining wives while delegates were at meetings. Jessica, who has been with the federation since it was founded in 1938, thinks the mayors are a "grand bunch"; she wanted everything to go smoothly...
Like Decent People. Beaten Milt Murray declined to be renominated, and got loud applause for saying: "There has been some pretty vicious politics . . . and I contributed my share. We've fought like a bunch of goddam kids. Let's see if we can't grow up and act like decent people...