Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Growled Councilman Mapel: "Nobody can touch the American Medical Association. . . . Talk about the closed shop of the A.F. of L. and the C.I.O.-they are a bunch of pikers...
...other nine. When Headmistress Madeleine Sparling evacuated her blitz-threatened London girls' school to Harefield Park in Barsetshire, impoverished Squire Belton of Harefield welcomed the fat rent she paid for his manor. But he suffered an anguish of snobbery over having his ancestral home occupied by a bunch of "elderly . . . slightly deformed [school] mistresses" dressed in wartime "utility non-crease . . . ready-made dresses of a kind of fine sacking in shades of puce [and] dirty tomato'' -to say nothing of the Cockney girls "in shapeless purple flannel blazers [and] pudding-bowl grey felt hats." The Squire...
...Bunch of Nerves." More & more in the last few years, liquor had been helping Mike to get away from depressing things. Time was when he could get away from things by running. At 14, to escape a future in the coal mines, he ran away from the four-room shack in Daiseytown, Pa. where he and ten other Slavik children lived on their father's scant coal-mining wages. At 16, Mike lied about his age and escaped into the Army. In the Army, Mike won a hero's medals, but injuries and battle strain were too much...
Mike's sister, Margaret, mourned: "He used to be so nice. Now he's just a bunch of nerves and never sits still." Mike, dejectedly running his big hands through his mop of brown hair, said: "Maybe I need a psychiatrist...
...three-sided gang-fight. "They were mighty rough kids. Under the usual procedure, I would have . . . placed them in the county jail. . . but I herded the 14 boys into the chief's office and locked myself up in there with them, removed my pistol and coat. In the bunch I had two rough gang leaders. They had attained leadership with their fists and could have torn me to pieces. One was of Mexican descent. The other was Anglo-American. Both were manly kids but plenty bad-and they hated each other...