Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Helen Feldman, a Chicago secretary, he wrote: "I wired a bunch of these fanatics in New York, and told them if these Communists and fanatical groups did not quit trying to pass such damphool legislation . . . that eventually the great mass of American people would revolt and figuratively liquidate every member of their groups...
...most elaborate information service aboard his flagship of any commander afloat. His staff is large and he enjoys hearing it called the "Dirty Tricks Department." Its meetings are what the name implies: Halsey warned an overstarched admiral who joined him: "This is a pretty rough bunch. We don't stand on rank...
Imagine how that guy Patton would have squawked if he had been forced by a bunch of clergymen to spend his 18th year in a theological school...
...games (including a doubleheader with the hopeless Phillies), crashed from first to fifth place in eight days. The astounding Brooklyn Dodgers, who had once been doped as pitiful or worse, had taken a three-and-a-half-game lead-with the Cardinals, Pirates, Giants, Cubs and Braves in a bunch behind. Ott's nervous stomach, which put him to bed for two weeks when his 1943 Giants slumped into last place, began acting up. He cajoled, threatened, finally fined players. The only thing still left untried: hiring a hackman to drive a wagonload of barrels (a traditional omen...
...fellows loose in the community and in a couple of weeks you wouldn't know that they'd been in the Army." Said a 25-year-old ex-corporal, now a garage mechanic: "Most of the fellows are like me. Just don't ask a bunch of questions...