Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tired of a British sport called bandy.* They could usually be counted on to turn out the best amateur team in the world. Then last year, Toronto's Lyndhursts went to Stockholm and embarrassed all of Canada: they lost the international championship to the Moscow Dynamos, a bunch of hard-skating sportsmen from the MVD, Russia's security police...
...girls that admire him greatly." Autry, by then moseying around Kansas, called up one of the preachers to apologize for whooping it up. "I guess you think I'm a reg'lar drunkard," mumbled Autry humbly. "Well, I'm not. I got in with the wrong bunch and before I knew it I got too much...
...feast day of St. Scholastica the Virgin, and a bunch of the boys from Oxford University were out on the town. At the tavern called Swyndlestock, they ordered wine, but when John de Croydon brought it to them, they decided that it was no good. De Croydon said it was; the scholars said it wasn't. To emphasize their point, they threw it in the tavern keeper's face. With that gesture-just 600 years ago-began the bloodiest town-and-gown riot in the history of Oxford...
...outrage to the honor of Ireland, and to every thing St. Patrick's Day over meant to any Irishman with half a heart. Since when did the Irish follow a bunch of kids dressed up like British flunkies through the streets of Boston on a day in honor of the Irish patron saint?" the ex-official stormed...
...handily; scores were as lopsided as 150 to 8. "It's a great game, but it's not much fun any more," Willie complains. "There are only about ten real pros in pocket billiards-only five who are first-class. All the rest are a lazy bunch of louts...