Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line popped into my mind: A bunch of the boys were whooping it up, and it stuck there." That night, in the teller's cage of the bank, Service wrote his famed Shooting of Dan McGrew aided by the bank guard who fired at him, under the impression that he was a burglar...
Government to subsidize ballet. Says she: "A bunch of foreigners have brought the ballet into the country - now I would like that it could stay and be an American institution." Monte Carlo's Queen. In the severe Russian tradition, Danilova started training at eight, when her aunt put her in the Imperial Theater School in St. Petersburg. Through nine cold and hungry years Danilova struggled to make the corps of Moscow's famed Maryinsky Theater, the tough and thorough proving ground for Imperial School pupils. In her second year at Maryinsky, Alexandra danced the lead in Stravinsky...
...wide, flat valley dotted with greasewood, yucca and bunch grass selected as site for the test explosion is known in Manhattan Project doubletalk as "Trinity." Most of the land once belonged to a rancher named MacDonald, whose wrecked ranch house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman...
Henry Pu Yi, just captured by the Russians, had further cause for sadness. The ex-Manchukuo puppet's collection of dolls was all smashed up by a bunch of Jap bullies who looted his palace, the Moscow radio reported...
First to be disappointed were Europe's little businessmen. For reasons of its own, ANLC had divided the surpluses into almost prohibitive lots. To be sold in one bunch were: 1) $827,808 worth of auto batteries; 2) $100,000 lots of telephones, radios and medical gadgets; 3) 50 Denhardt mouth gags (a bargain at $3.49 apiece) if the purchaser also agreed to buy a few thousand jar covers, mustard pots and large ladles...