Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stock Yards Co.: "We've been like a farm boy gawking along the midway of a county fair. Now we've got to get back to work pitching hay." Florida's Congressman Dante Fascell reported attending a club meeting in Miami: "After it was over, a bunch of the boys gathered around me and spent a couple of hours asking me questions about what I knew of the missile program and the international situation. I didn't detect any panic. There was just a genuine interest which I don't believe existed a short time...
...girls had been to high school and they knew Ghengis Khan hadn't been defeated by a bunch of Eskimos, so I had to figure out a way for Nanook to lose the battle. 'Well,' I'd tell them, 'You know how much dust there is in China. Nanook's army just couldn't take it and they all got tuberculosis. It was a terrible slaughter from which the Eskimo civilization never recovered.' This satisfied most of them and when I mentioned the names of one or two professors working on the translation they practically worshipped me. Intellectually, you might...
...woods happily engrossed in nature study, fed small spiders to big spiders ("The big spiders would grab the little ones and roll them up in a ball. Bob said that was for their winter food"), once observed "a grouse, a muskrat and six deer all in a bunch." The nature lovers encountered a dog, which Lee named Rex. As the second day went by, Lee became weary, pleaded in vain with Bob to take him home...
...first half of the 20th century shakes down into perspective, it seems certain that the art contribution of the Spanish contingent will bulk surprisingly large. Top banana of the bunch is, of course, Pablo Picasso. But there are also Juan Gris, pioneer Sculptor-Welder Julio González, Surrealists Joán Miró and Salvador Dali. And now another name is being nominated for the list: the late Manuel Martinez Hugué (1872-1945), better known simply as Manolo, whose small-scale bronzes and terra-cotta sculptures are the most earthy and most intensely Spanish art works...
...final word. Not even Yale can legislate social attitudes. The sooner A. Whitney Griswold and his bunch of deans find out they have a crew of uncivilized weenies on their hands, the better...