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Word: bunche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied airmen called Müller their best assistant, the Germans' worst flyer. "Tally ho!" they yelled when they spotted him. "Here comes Müller's bunch!" As they went after the Messerschmitts, they could hear the Nazi commander bellowing angry curses over the inter-plane radio: "Müller, verdammter Esel! [damn ass!]. . . . Müller Menschenskind! [man alive!]. . . . Müller, Sie Trottel! [you dope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: The Pranging of Muller | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Henry Lamar can't see himself as a Varsity football coach. "I'm still an assistant," he says, "filling in for the loss. Dick Harlow, until he comes house." And then the softspoken, well-liked "assistant" goes on about his business of "assisting" by whipping together a bunch of green youngsters into a tough, precision eleven representative of the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 11/19/1943 | See Source »

...Lewis' first music teacher, painted Ohio farmers' portraits, cheerfully wrecked his career as an insurance salesman to garner 103 votes as 1903 Socialist candidate for mayor of Columbus, Ohio. Ameringer's Guardian had some 40,000 readers who agreed that modern civilization is "a bunch of naked blind men trying to pick each other's pockets with pitchforks." When Ameringer picked up his pitchfork against the Axis in post-Pearl Harbor days, pacifist subscribers canceled the paper out of existence. Said Ameringer: "Running a labor paper is like feeding melted butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 15, 1943 | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...This team from Medford is not a very Manley bunch, in fact they're Kleymen. They won't cause much Trumbull with Jawn at the Rutter. Anyhow, they are on our Lister beat. The game will be a Zullo and we'll have a Hooper of a time, so Troy and be there," Hu Flung urged his friend. Harvard 13 Tufts...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey (as), | Title: Hu Flung Huey Flings 'Em | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

Said Captain Gable, quietly: "I don't think I could put that in words. They're a pretty good bunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Glory's Price | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

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