Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 29, 1950, the President of the U.S. told the American people that a "bunch of bandits" had crossed the 38th parallel in Korea. "Under the circumstances," said Harry Truman, "I have ordered U.S. air and sea forces to give the Korean government troops cover and support...
...Braves reacted like a bunch of summer-stock actors hitting Broadway; they played over their heads. But this week, as the Braves came home to the wide-open arms of Milwaukee after winning 15 of 21 games on the road, they were still running neck and neck with the Brooklyn Dodgers for the league lead. And National League fans were not so sure that the Braves were playing over their heads after...
...year by units when in reserve. At headquarters, a top Eighth Army officer explained: "We'll just pick up our stoves and take the glass windows out of the bunkers on the front and move them back a ways. All the new line needs then is a bunch of G.I.s keeping house in it." Despite these paper plans at headquarters, regimental commanders at the front were still in the dark about what to do when a cease-fire came. One of them guessed that it would take at least two months to put the new line in sound shape...
...invasion. The invaders: the Ku Klux Klan, which swarmed into Columbus County from neighboring counties in 1950 and began to terrorize whites and Negroes alike. News Reporter Editor Willard Cole, 46, and Tribune Editor Horace Carter, 32, locked arms for a long, tough battle. Branding the Klan "a [bunch of] gangsters," Cole and Carter, both native Tarheels and longtime friends, fought month after month with front-page editorials, dug up proof of K.K.K. floggings and atrocities, kept guns in their homes for their own protection...
Such praise only annoys the testy professor even more. "Nonsense," he snaps. "It's no more difficult than restoring any other old painting. This painting has been ruined by a bunch of morons." The professor's problem: not only to remove the ages of dirt and mold, but also the layers of clumsy retouching brushed on by past restorers. "It's extremely simple," he says. "You just scratch until you reach the real Leonardo." Then, smiling behind his spectacles, he adds: "The only difficulty lies in knowing exactly when to stop...