Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real fans are indeed a curious bunch. H. L. Gold, the editor of Galaxy--he describes himself as one of the few objective people in the field--talks about them like this: "All of them are to be avoided. They hinder more than they help. They're non-judicious, non-objective screwballs. They can't see any other point of view." Gold admits that he personally has viewpoints. "But I'm not dogmatic about them," he adds...
After alarming us with such disquieting facts as "Richard Nixon is an s.o.b.," "the Eisenhower gang is a bunch of racketeers," and the Republicans have taken our country so far down the road to destruction that "with God's help, the Democrats must save us," it is good of Harry to comfort us with the heartening news that we have loyal, upright citizens left in the persons of Alger Hiss and Nathan Gregory Silvermaster [Sept...
...dressed New Yorker who called himself Dr. Joseph Knirim turned up in Vimoutiers determined to honor Marie Harel, "the discoverer of Camembert cheese." "I suffered from indigestion for months," explained Dr. Knirim, "and Camembert was the only food my stomach could absorb. I have carried across the seas this bunch of flowers to honor our common benefactress...
...M.I.T. team runs as a group, in an attempt to bunch its scorers ahead of its more scattered opponents. But Crimson strategy will send two or three runners into an early lead, in an effort to force the Engineers to break up their grouping. Coach Bill McCurdy, taking advantage of his team's great depth, intends to form a solid group with his other runners, thus consolidating the varsity scoring punch...
...Administration: "This bunch of racketeers" (Harry Truman); "twiddling thumbs while vast natural resources of America [are] being tinkled away like Christmas bells" (Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement); "a vast intellectual desert" (Truman); a "billion-dollar circus" with "the most bizarre political sideshows ever staged" (Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr); they have "forsaken the best interests of the people . . . sacrificed the natural-resource heritage of the public" (Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse...