Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baker took over the newly-created Bureau for Veterans' Wives after being a personnel manager in a local factory during the war. Then located in temporary quarters in Longfellow Hall, Mrs. Baker took into her confidence almost two thousand married GI's. "What a wonderful bunch they were, mature, all the wives willing to work!" But she quickly added, "They're all dears, though...
Beetle-browed Cheddi Jagan, 35. had flown to Britain, confidently expecting a bonanza of Socialist sympathy. With him, flashing the three-fingered salute of the P.P.P.. was his Minister of Education; an Oxford-educated Negro named Linden Forbes Burnham. The pair were met at London Airport by a bunch of British Communists, but before they could mount a soapbox, Scotland Yard whisked them away to a private office on the Opposition side of the House of Commons. Clement Attlee, whose government had prepared the way for self-government in Guiana, had urgent questions to ask. He had been disturbed...
...backfield, with five possible starters is a different story. Margarita dropped the perennial wrinkle from his forehead long enough to admit, "It's the best bunch of backs I've had since I came to Harvard...
...Center under the banner HARVARD STUDY OF RUSSIA CALLED INSANE-COSTS U. S. $450,000. For three days, the front page emphasized the attack, quoting Senators like McClellan saying things like "If the army, navy and defense departments do not know how to counteract Soviet propaganda without hiring a bunch of college professors, this defense establishment is in darn bad shape in my opinion." Such quotes were not published in other papers, indicating Kelso had obtained them on his own. The Research Center's side of the story was not published in the Post, and the decision...
...schools had been let out for the occasion, and cheering kids and high-school bands lined the streets as the presidential motorcade flashed by. At his old home, Ike spotted some pink and purple cornflowers in the garden. They reminded him of his mother, so he picked a bunch and presented them to a well-scrubbed group of his great-nephews and cousins. Then he browsed awhile among the memorabilia in the Eisenhower Museum...