Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that "Belgian workers would never take arms against their brothers in the Soviet Union and the people's democracies." The Brussels police, anticipating disturbance and well prepared for it, hustled off the troublemakers without difficulty. Churchill placidly smiled through the tumult with a cigar in one hand, a bunch of tulips in the other...
...another sort last week. Just 15 years ago Tacho's Guardia had cut down his old rival, Augusto Sandino. On the night of the anniversary, somebody scuttled across the runway at Managua's Xolotlán airfield to leave a memorial to the slain revolutionist: a bunch of red carnations, straw flowers and bougainvillea. At dawn, the fat tire of a Nicaraguan air force C46 rolled over the flowers, staining the black macadam with scarlet pulp at the spot where the Guardia is said to have buried Sandino...
...made city editor. Bing's recollection of his staff: "I do not suppose in the history of journalism there was ever such a bunch of misfits, crackpots and incompetents ... in one newspaper office . . ." The feeling, as Bingay tells it now, was obviously mutual. Reporters passed up stories for the sheer pleasure of seeing the boy wonder scooped...
Certainly Gyoergy was unbowed. "I don't retract one single word," he stormed. "I'd do it again any time . . . The American players ... are a bunch of dollar-imperialist puppets, reactionaries and betting braggarts." Shamefaced Hungarian players, who did not share the fire-eating Communist's opinions, privately apologized to the U.S. team. After the Hungarian team won the Swaythling Cup, even Gyoergy grudgingly relented: "It's a pity I said all this. It chips off some of the glory of the Magyar victory...
...world had been interested in Amsterdam, reported The Netherlands' Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general secretary to the World Council, but not all of the press comment had been favorable. Some papers, said Dr. Visser 't Hooft, had criticized Amsterdam severely for being "a bunch of left-wing socialists talking like regular revolutionaries." Others had sneered at "those bourgeois who will never learn that the world is moving on." The Soviet press had attacked the council as "a new powerful center of a political church." Commented Visser 't Hooft: "They don't take...