Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fate of the World? Slowly, through Chicago's hot, traffic-jammed streets, the herd of delegates converged on the convention hall, the International Amphitheater, which swam in the pungent smell from the surrounding stockyards. The delegates were a serious bunch. They seemed to realize that their party and their nation had come to a crossroads...
...Europe. Jacques Duclos, who had been in the pokey for nearly five weeks on a conspiracy charge, listened happily to the cheers of some 50 friends, admirers and fellow troublemakers gathered outside. The car stopped; Mme. Duclos rushed up, bussed her husband soundly on both cheeks, handed him a bunch of red gladiolas and got in beside him. Then the grey limousine drove away...
...even suspended Parliament to give Hilaly a chance. But his fall was inevitable because he could not make a deal with the British for Egypt's No. 1 demand: sovereignty over the Sudan for King Farouk. The British, though they like Hilaly ("the best of a poor bunch"), coldly appraised his chances, and decided that he had only a minority government which could not be built up to election-winning stature even if the British gave him what he asked. So they gave him no help. He had nothing else to prop him up except the King. Tired...
...young Gene Howe never had an easy time of it. He quit high school after two months, was often at odds with his stern father who once wrote in the Globe: "Three Atchison young men disgraced themselves . . . Saturday. The publisher's son was the drunkest of the bunch." Even when Gene Howe took a job on the family's paper, his father agreed he was an "impossible" newspaperman, summarily fired him. After four years working as a reporter on the Portland Oregorian, Gene went back to the Globe. Later he borrowed $25,000 from friends and took over...
...morning of the Princeton game, a fake CRIMSON was circulated, announcing that the Nassau coach had died on the playing field from "holding his breath too long." At the same time, the Lampoon published an editorial, calling Princeton a bunch of party boys more interested in clothes and athletics than scholarship. Princeton retorted that Harvard was taking a supercilious attitude toward their New Jersey neighbors, and that the Lampoon was trying to alibi for a series of defeats. The CRIMSON tried to placate both parties, saying that because of a patronizing attitude, "Princeton is out to get Harvard . . . but they...