Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunted up someone who I knew had gotten several tickets and stated my case. He was very sympathetic, and holding out a bunch of tickets fan-shape he asked me to "pick any two you wish." I was non-plussed...
Braucher is not happy about Stevenson's tendency to talk as if "he were speaking before a bunch of Ph.D. candidates." He believes that it is "important for a president to talk in a way that is comprehensible to men without graduate degrees...
...once known as the "shop," is now the "foundry," "store" or "delicatessen." An adman attends "brainstorm sessions" instead of meetings; there, ideas are "pressure cooked," "housebroken," or merely "kicked around." And if no single idea is "bought"-that is, if nobody "gets any nourishment from it"-chances are a bunch of ideas will be "Burbanked," i.e., combined into a hybrid. At such high-level "spitballing sessions" it may be advisable to "pitch up a few mashie shots to see how close we are to the green." Then, having made sure that the scheme has sufficient "protein," i.e., is a good...
McCloskey has a bunch that the Republicans will make McCarthyism an "increasingly significant issue" in the closing weeks of the campaign. He fears that, encouraged by the Senator's victory in Wisconsin, the Republicans will be tempted to use McCarthyism as another "Bloody Shirt of the Rebellion." He cited a "similar" attempt by Adolf Hitler, who conjured up threats of subversion in order to keep himself in power...
...gubernatorial candidate Christian Herter he described as a "wise, conservative gentleman and scholar. Dever is a plain front man for a bunch of thugs and robbers...