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Word: bunche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salem, Ore., Martha Hager sued a bus company for $28,000, declared that one of the company's workers had looked over a crowd of passengers, including herself, and observed: "You all look like a bunch of pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 3, 1944 | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...super-talent scout (Rosalind Russell) is used to earning commissions as handsome as she is. But when the film begins she is having trouble locating a bunch of brawn adequate to .portraying The Whirlwind, hero of a best-selling romance which is rocketing screenward. In time's nick, she discovers that the book's author, a shy professor (Willard Parker), has just the physical architecture for the role. So she blandishes him into taking it, makes casual use of his infatuation with her to warm him up for the picture's love scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 27, 1943 | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...Douglas . . . explains, "We're just a bunch of middle-aged fellows getting too lazy to handle a schooner." But schooner men take one look at Endymion's circus-tent mainsail and incredible mast and feel faintly ill. . . . Anyone who has seen the Douglas yacht charging home from Catalina of a Sunday afternoon, romping past other craft, both sail and power, knows that her owner sails her like a man possessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Common Carrier. In Salem, Ore., outraged Martha Hager sued a bus company for $28,000, declared that one of the company's workers had looked over a crowd of waiting passengers, including herself, and observed: "You all look like a bunch of pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...hand. The 40 on the back wasn't so bad, but the 35 in the hand was something else. I think we can all remember when we have to run for a train with a bag weighing something like that. Well, running with a tough bunch of Commandos or Rangers makes running for a train seem like a cakewalk. When the troops go past you and on out ahead like so many gazelles you suddenly find yourself very alone and without much to record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Too Much to Lug | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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