Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guests at the Lord Mayor's ball stood in a ring around the dais, just staring at the blushing Queen. Elizabeth's smiles gradually vanished, and soon she left the room to avoid the sea of staring eyes. Said one embarrassed Australian: "We must look like a bunch of wild colonials...
...stand with Rickover were Admiral Robert Carney, Chief of Naval Operations, and a swarm of the Navy's highest brass, industrialists. Senators, atomic scientists-and Sponsor Mamie Eisenhower, carrying a big bunch of roses and smiling pertly at everyone. The Coast Guard band played a specially written march, The Nautilus, and then there were the speeches. "A launching," said Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, "is always a prophetic and romantic occasion, but this literally transcends all which have gone before. For the Nautilus is ... something new under...
...determined bunch," Independent Charles A. Watson stated last night, "but the long recess may effect some unity...
...here for some hockey tournament, and one night they would be strutting around the lobby with fierce looks, mumbling, "Beat somebody or other." And the next night they did everything but bash their heads against the wall and kick over chairs because they had lost a game to "a bunch of ringers." Two or three leered up to Vag and asked where they could get a drink in this joint, and he told them, because it meant they would go to bed sooner...
Last week, to add to Talbert's woes just before the matches with Belgium, a Melbourne newspaper solemnly told its readers that the Americans were a champagne-guzzling bunch of happy-go-lucky nightclubbers who paid more attention to gin rummy than to tennis. Point by point, Talbert denied the charges, then posted an angry exhortation in the U.S. locker room: "Let's go, boys. Let's show...