Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dealer, and, most painfully-because the fellow was no intellectual-in a Pullman compartment with a man in a Brooks Brothers shirt. The Oasis (1949) was a sailor's farewell to the remnants of New York's intellectual Left; it began with the arrival of a bunch of New Utopians, their cars laden "with whisky, cans and contraceptives," and left them at the end without even their illusions. After The Groves of Academe (1952), the U.S. progressive college will never be the same again; in that book Mary McCarthy (who taught at Bard and Sarah Lawrence) posed...
...Funny, my eye," roared the host. "Wait till you see what he says about you girls. He makes you all sound like a bunch of overcompensating sexpots...
From the Deathbed. Three times Papagos refused the premiership, then in 1951, disgusted at King Paul's political bungling, he resigned his command job. A bunch of top army officers surrounded the royal palace, occupied all government offices and invited him to take over. Papagos brusquely disowned them. The same year he formed his Greek Rally party, began fighting the democratic way ("De Gaulle wants to change the French constitution with more power for the executive. My purpose is to defend our constitution against all trespassers"). In the 1952 election the Greek Rally swept the polls. After having...
...polishing, K.M.A.'s first 157 graduates were off for nine years of compulsory service in the army and to their places as the leaders of Korea's military and technological life. They were, as their superintendent, Major General Chang Kuk Chang, 31, admitted, as bright a bunch of second lieutenants as can be found anywhere in the world. But one thing worried him: that they might feel too superior to the nonacademy men they will soon be serving under. General Chang's parting advice: "Don't be too proud of yourself. Don't think...
...foreman how many hours U.S. workers put in weekly. Amazed to hear about the 40-hour week, the Russian pointed out that Soviet workers stay on the job 70 hours. Replied the foreman: "You'd never get this crew to work 70 hours. They're a bunch of Commies." ¶ On the baby sardine who was frightened by a submarine: "Don't worry, dear," soothed his mother, "it's only a can of people...