Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was by no means the first attack on Minority Leader Joe Martin's do-nothing policy. But Joe Martin could not dismiss it as coming from a bunch of amateurs. Signers of the statement included such able legislators as Minnesota's Walter Judd, New York's Augustus Bennet. New Jersey's James Auchincloss, and Massachusett's Christian Herter...
...Bunch of Firemen." The flow of German documents with their dry, block-long sentences gave way to the living, somewhat strained voice of the trial's first witness. To the microphone came a tall, cadaverous-looking man whose bald head shone brightly under the floodlights; dark glasses and earphones gave him a horror-story air. He was Major General Erwin Lahousen, aide to the late, little-known Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Wehrmacht's counterintelligence. After the unsuccessful bomb attempt on the Führer's life in July 1944, Canaris was slowly strangled with piano...
...complained to his colleague Colonel General Alfred Jodl: "The court just doesn't seem to realize the principle of 'orders are orders.' . . . It's not up to the Wehrmacht staff to question the Führer principle. If we did, we would have a bunch of firemen, not a Wehrmacht...
...these esoteric art forms which give the snobs a chance to demonstrate their superiority. The sooner Mr. Rockefeller tears down that Museum of Modern Art of his with all its nonobjective paintings, the better off American art will be. The only ones who hang around that museum are a bunch of softies who don't know how to drink or do anything...
...told the sportswriters: "It turned out as practically everybody anticipated it would." But Floyd Stahl said: "The game was well worth playing. We have a lot of ground to recover after being out three years, and we can't expect to get back to normal overnight. It was a bunch of little fellows being bounced around by big fellows. Two or three of our attempts to throttle Walker and Broderick looked like bees trying to get honey from a bear...