Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know whether you're going to support me or not, and I don't give a damn; you're a bunch of political liabilities anyway...
...with a bunch from Brooklyn. That was the year Mickey Owen dropped the third strike on Tommy Henrich. We were in the sunny southland, but I'll swear it didn't stop raining until the following February. And all on account of that third strike...
...vicinity of his billet...the proud look on Mr. Gregory's face a day or so later when he walked smartly into the gun bin to turn in his piece and said, "My name's Gorham."...the sheepish grin on James Gwin Zea's face when a bunch of the boys referred to him as "the flag," and stood up as he sat down to chow at their tuble ONE day...the crackling sound of Bill Acker's voice after a particularly long session of "hip-toop-threep-fourping"...the blood-in-the-eye look of the tall, grizzled...
Shaw was always digging slyly at his wife's wealth. One time he said: "I've no idea what her income is, but judging from the manner in which she lives, it is fairly considerable." In season, once a week, he brought her a bunch of her favorite lilies of the valley. Asked in 1931 to contribute to a symposium on marriage, Shaw replied: "No man dare tell the truth about marriage while his wife lives. Unless, that is, he hates her, like Strindberg...
Then the Hopes migrated to Cleveland. There Bob ran around with a bunch of little toughies, filching apples from pushcarts, racking pool balls, selling papers (legend has it that John D. Rockefeller Sr. once rebuked Newsboy Hope for offering to trust him). He was also a choirboy until "in the middle of a lovely solo, my voice changed...