Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chilled and frozen Argentine beef to England (which needs it badly) dropped from 367,982 metric tons in 1939 to 280,242 last year, an estimated 131,000 tons at the outside this year. Unable to move 12,000,000 stems of Jamaican bananas bought at two shillings a bunch, Britain has presented them to the Jamaicans for disposal. Not even all the U.S. steel on which Britain has priorities can be carried...
...first week of Shaw's Major Barbara. On the radio, Sir Adrian Boult was conducting a memorial concert to Sir Hamilton Harty. Two hundred Harrod's employes carried home gas masks, after a gas test in the store. Freckled brown orchids sold at a half crown a bunch in Piccadilly, where the crowds window-shopped before late dinners or after big late teas in crowded Lyons' Corner Houses. Londoners were not liking the news from Libya and Greece, but were relaxing in the comfortable conviction that the war was receding from their doorstep...
...says we're afraid to bowl those Yale Cops? Just let us meet them face to face and we'll walk all over them" was the emphatic reply of the "Yahd" cops when shown a copy of the Yale News. The Eli paper had called Cambridge's finest "a bunch of old fogies" and Harvard's guardians of college windows were mighty angry...
...juju consisted of a bunch of chicken feathers well soaked in chicken blood and held together by strips of snakeskin. The witch doctor buried the juju in the earth at the foot of the wind sock...
...NCDE parried the accusations of redbaiters. Bruce Barton, Jr. '43, an executive, stated that "of all the conferences of students I've ever attended, this is the least open to charges of communism." Anne Grant of Radcliffe, another executive, said the congress was being victimized by a "bunch of professional disruptors...