Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their frequent after-battle conferences swopping knowledge and correcting mistakes beside a campfire. There was Private Vyazmin, excitedly babbling to his officers instruction on how to improve trench-mortar fire; and Sergeant Smirnov, that joker among scouts, telling how he distracted and captured a German motorcyclist by tying a bunch of foliage to a long cord, dragging the foliage across the road...
...Brown, and Sidney Bechet, who have been setting the Ken a-rocking in the past three months, there will be a pussyfoot outfit under Nick Jerrit. Not that the band hasn't possibilities, but playing alongside J. C. Higginbotham and Pete Brown in yesterday's jam session, Jerrit's bunch was dismally uninteresting. There evidently won't be an end to the Sunday sessions, which is heartening. I don't think they'll be as exciting as previously, if for the simple reason that you can't build a whole afternoon's entertainment around one guest star. On the other...
...increase in his slight pay, the dreams of better jobs and bossy executive positions began to grow increasingly vague. Especially since there was now a mediocre wife and two mediocre kids. But it must be tough, Vag felt, to have no one to take it out on but a bunch of dumb pupils who didn't appreciate how great he really could have been if he had only had some breaks or had the time...
...them seem to be lassies from west of the Hudson who didn't make one of the good colleges and who want the advantages of an "Eastern education"; the ratio of snobs is, if anything, higher than that of empty-heads. The best lot of the college is the bunch that is mixed up in dramatics. If you are interested in acting, try to get a part in an Erskine play. You can learn dramatics and enjoy yourself simultaneously...
...learning Spanish in El Paso schools: "They don't teach us very much. We're really a bunch of parrots. ... I have a hunch the way they're doing it is not very good. . . . Speaking of school, it may surprise you to know that it comes from a Greek word meaning, of all things, leisure...