Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...displayed in somber black bathing suits what used to win Miss America contests. Judging took so long that the master of ceremonies ran out of gags, took to reading comic strips aloud. Said Sergeant Silvagni's wife, a bathing-beauty expert: "I thought they'd be a bunch of dogs this time. But they're prettier than I expected. They're not made up too much, for a change. It's the Ingrid Bergman influence...
...Army Specialized Training men in Winthrop and Leverett have been most active in College life. These students of Military Psychology and Foreign Areas and the Med Students in Boston will embrace Harvard's new school when it arrives in October. Called the AST reserve, this new bunch will be 17-year-olds, sent to college, housed and fed free, but with no pay until they get inducted. They will wear civilian clothes to classes, get some discipline, and take engineering courses...
Together Burns and Keyser smoothed the G.F.T.'s kinks and adapted it to compute ranges for any powder charge and any weapon. Getting it accepted by the Army was slower work. Eventually Harry Burns was ready to give up; above his desk he pinned a bunch of red tape (to make himself feel at home) and slouched back to ruminate on horses. But Keyser kept rushing in where colonels feared to tread. Eventually he sold the War Department...
...alarm, that midnight voice cut through our sleep. The walkie-talkies spoke: "Move out! Move out!" A soldier said: "I'm all set to go. I got new bandages on my feet." Suddenly we were on the path, moving in single file-no vehicles, no tanks, just a bunch of foot soldiers...
General Henri Honoré Giraud recalled happily in Washington how he renewed an old German acquaintance. A year after he had slipped out of Germany's Königstein prison, he encountered a bunch of prisoners in North Africa, discovered among them his old jailer...