Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merrifield, a former graduate student at Littauer, explained that his colleagues considered the Harvard men "a good bunch of guys" and thought they should stay in college as long as they possibly could. "The idea that the civilian students are considered slackers by the men in uniform is absurd," the ensign stated. "Most of us had completed our college training, so we had loss to give up," he commented...
...training system. Said one of the new group commanders last week: "When I got back and told my mother what we are up against in this war she was speechless. She had been reading the papers and she really thought we had been knocking hell out of a bunch of pushovers...
...Keeffe's painting life, are a superb catalogue. They include the abstractions, the giant flowers, trees, shells, bones, skulls and landscapes which once caused the New York Sun's Critic Henry McBride to remark that only Georgia O'Keeffe could "so hush up a bunch of lady art connoisseurs and make them go whispering on tiptoes about a gallery." O'Keeffe's huge flowers include jack-in-the-pulpits, hollyhocks, larkspur, the 3-by-2½-ft. Black Iris, which the Institute's Art Director Daniel Catton Rich described as an example...
...Language," says Smith, "is nothing more than a bunch of noises made by the face." Smith evolved a system which selects from every language some 115 basic words and phrases. The soldier can then pick up more words by talking to natives. Smith's records are accompanied by booklets so that record-listeners see what they hear. In the field, special service officers hold language lessons for groups of from 10 to 20 men, who hear each set of records a half-dozen times and repeat the alien phrases aloud...
When people say the Chicago Times is run by a bunch of kids, they are only indulging in pardonable exaggeration. Apart from Editor Richard Finnegan (58), its news executives are softspoken, greying Managing Editor Russell Stewart, 33; News Editor Leo Zalucha, 33; Foreign Editor Irving Pflaum, once a United Press foreign correspondent, 36; Robert Kennedy, chief of the Times's Washington bureau...