Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special VIP plane to Helsinki to pick them up, put them up lavishly in the Sovietskaya Hotel in suites complete with pianos and radios. "Truly a place for important people," glowed Unionist Harry Franklin. Georgy Malenkov himself invited them out to a handsome country dacha, and after picking a bunch of phlox and gladioli for Dr. Summerskill, told her gallantly: "What has been wrong too often in the world of education is that men have been too impertinent and women overmodest." Dr. Edith agreed...
...health and customs routine, just like any other traveler. As she opened each piece of luggage, Ava got angrier and angrier, while the customs inspector got increasingly conscientious and methodical. At length she fumed: "Let's get the first plane out of this place. They're a bunch of savages and I won't stay here!" With that she flounced into a car and was off to her beflowered presidential suite at the Hotel Gloria. Ten minutes after her arrival, the manager, urgently summoned by protesting guests to Suite 901, was greeted with a flying glass...
...Orleans Jazz Party (Gene Mayl's Dixieland Rhythm Kings; Riverside LP). A bunch of youngsters in Dayton carrying on the tradition of "righteous" (i.e., primitive) jazz. They sound for all the world like bands of three decades ago, including twanging banjo and two-beat tuba, but with none of the surface noise of old records, and some fresh ideas...
...entered the White House after a rough presidential campaign in which he made up his mind that the newsmen acted like a bunch of district attorneys who were more concerned to trap him than get information. This he no longer believes. He no longer feels that he has a hostile audience. In short, after a fairly stormy passage during the last year and a half, he has come out into what seems to him to be calmer water. The economic situation at home is improved, peace has been preserved, and the press conference, which used to be a crisis...
...actually old-style U.S. diplomacy, would avoid trying to bunch dissimilar allies. Of some, it would ask little and expect little; with others, it would go as far as necessity, opportunity and prudence suggest...