Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy was the gamest of the bunch...
...bank, then started teaching English at CalTech, where he is now an associate professor, dean of admissions and registrar. Married, two sons. Jones recalls: "The Rabbit rushed thither and yon like a lost child, but dammit, he got things done . . . We kidded him because we others were a bunch of lazy guys sitting around on our duffs, and Stevenson was doing things . . . He took our kidding damn well, and in college you don't kid unless you like a guy . . . The Engineers have a slogan, 'Illegitimi Non Carborundum'* -Don't let the bastards wear you down...
...Force to the Rescue. Over from a Delaware base came a flight of radar-equipped F94 jet fighters. Before they reached Washington, all the blips vanished. The jets saw nothing at all. But when the jets departed the blips reappeared, playing all over the scope, Barnes said, "like a bunch of kids." He called all airliners flying near Washington, asked their pilots to report any strange objects. One pilot saw a white light, moving fast. But during all this uproar, other radars near Washington (e.g., Quantico and Fort Meade) saw nothing unusual...
...bought from his friend, Actor Marlon Brando, still patches his trousers with plastic cement. He spends his weekends flower-watching on a newly acquired 2½-acre field in Rockland, N.Y. "Next thing," he says in his timid Peepersish voice, "I think I'll buy me a bunch of cows...
...gets a personal visit from Mr. Pettigrew, a blue-nosed Labor M.P. who regards Highland life as the epitome of insanitary sloth. He brings a shapely wife, who admires his Penthean principles but turns to lustier men for her Dionysian pleasures. Along with the Pettigrews have come a varied bunch of visitors, including a novelist in flight from the tax collectors, a journalist, a Greek professor, a gang of salmon poachers. And it so happens that the laird's lovely daughter chooses this moment to stage a village production of Bacchanals...