Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visited a command post in one sector where they had just rounded up a bunch of Nips. A Marine outfit had surrounded them in the hills, tossed a few grenades. The survivors shouted: 'We surrender.' But when the Marines came out of cover the Japs opened up with machine guns. They had to be beaten all over again...
Ernie's stay with the CRIMSON has been a happy one. "It's been a lot of fun meeting so many different follows from all parts of the country," remarked Ernie. "The students are a good bunch, and I'm sorry to leave them...
...mysterious, mountainous land of superstition and legend-the land of the Dyaks, the wild men of Borneo, who used to collect heads as Westerners collect stamps; who believe that their victims' spirits enter their own bodies and add to their strength; who live, 50 families in a bunch, in communal houses up on stilts to be safe from orangutans, honey bears, rhinoceroses, elephants, snakes...
...became extinct on Aug. 23, 1934. "It's a good deal like beating the game. I would go so far as to say that becoming extinct is the perfect answer to everything and I defy anybody to think of a better. Other solutions are mere palliatives, just a bunch of loose ends, leaving the central problem untouched...
...minute they're over, they congregate in huge Minnesota parties in Leverett or Lowell. They serve themselves drinks which taste like a cross between Minneapolis grain whiskey and Swedish aquavit. They turn the radio on to the Minnesota game and raise the volume to the limit. Then the whole bunch of them sit around yelling "ski-yu-mah" and singing "Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee" until the Golden Horde has trounced another poor opponent. Woe to the hapless Nebraskan or Indianan who stumbles on their festivities and refuses to raise his voice in praise of the Gophers...