Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome loved him and laughed at him. He received exalted personages with his clothes turned inside out. He danced alone through the streets with his beard half shaved off, or strutted about carrying a huge bunch of broom which he pretended to sniff delightedly. Sometimes, in token of his humility, he would appear in public with a large blue cushion perched upon his head...
...serious doubt about how effective seizure would be. In 1943's seizure, miners had gone back to work after a plea by Franklin Roosevelt. But that was in wartime. In peacetime, the best disciplined union in the U.S.-an organization which makes the oldtime Wehrmacht look like a bunch of uncontrolled anarchists-would probably listen only to John Llewellyn Lewis...
...came along the [train] corridor with a bunch of magazines he was selling. ... He came in and sat with me for half an hour and we had quite a talk about books and reading generally. At the end of our conversation he told me ... he would like to give me something he greatly valued. Whereupon he unpinned a badge he was wearing, which carried the words 'MacArthur for President,' and pinned it on the lapel of my coat. [Thereafter] when the boy passed my room, I proudly displayed the badge; when anyone else came along, I took evasive...
...least five years. First year's budget: $50,000. The research team, still unselected: a medical officer who is an immunologist, a researcher experienced in handling viruses, an epidemiologist, possibly a biochemist. As a start, the team would attack the problem by isolating a cold virus, "or a bunch of viruses from a bunch of colds." Next step: development of an immunizing vaccine...
...Francisco on a two weeks' voyage to New Orleans. A wireless message from the War Shipping Administration changed her course for Chile. Over vodka and rum in Shanghai a sailor recalled that first leg of a voyage that was to last eight hectic months: "It was like a bunch of amateurs was running things...