Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...count the Guatemalan Reds out yet, warned Ambassador John E. Peurifoy, U.S. envoy to Guatemala during Arbenz' last months and a negotiator of the post-revolution truce. "They ran like a bunch of rats," Peurifoy said, testifying in Washington last week before the House Subcommittee on Communist Aggression in Latin America, but that only scattered them to various Latin American countries where they "represent a great danger, and I hope those governments are alert to the situation...
...Trial occupied Levine all last winter. In the process it developed from a sharply specific protest picture into an anxious generalization. He started with the notion of "painting a Negro being tried by a bunch of whites. Later," he explains, "the Negro dropped out of it, leaving just the judge, lofty and bespectacled, a record, a dignified bunch of lawyers and some unimportant guy in the box." With these few dim figures, around a judge's bench, Levine brilliantly evokes an air of weirness and worry, weighted with wiles and latent threat...
...stand, slight, white-haired Fleming made it plain he considered the recordings "just a bunch of hogwash," but had "cooperated" in return for Red favors-"dog meat for a meal or a couple of sulfa pills." He had told his fellow prisoners: "I cannot tell you to resist; it's up to you. Let your conscience be your guide." Personally, he said, he cared only about survival for his men and himself. "I decided," said Colonel Fleming, "that the most futile thing in the world was a dead prisoner...
...Recipe: Over mixed chopped fruit and nuts, throw pulverizations of black peppercorns (1 tsp.), a whole nutmeg, 4 cinnamon sticks, coriander (1 tsp.) and a bunch of dried, powdered cannabis sativa (marijuana plant). Mix sugar (1 cup) with a big pat of butter. Then combine the entire mess into a cake and cut into fudge-sized pieces. "It should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient...
...ruled not by a single dictator but by a group or junta. In comparison to Stalin ("Georgian suspicions, a mountaineer's narrow hatreds . . . the midnight habits of a proscribed revolutionary, the wolflike morals of a hunted bank robber") Salisbury found the junta composed of an outwardly pleasant bunch of men who thus, as a Western diplomat said, "are more dangerous than Stalin...