Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President seized the nation's railroads to prevent a strike. Four months later, the policy boards of the four brotherhoods involved-the trainmen, conductors, engineers and firemen-rejected a settlement proposed by Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman. Truman accused the union officials of acting like a bunch of Russians. He stayed...
...Across the bay at Pusan, U.S. infantrymen were called out to suppress an ugly hospital riot in Enclosure 10, which the Eighth Army rated a model camp. Most of its 8,000 prisoners had theoretically been screened as antiCommunists. A bunch of Red troublemakers were ordered to come out of one compound; when they refused, U.S. troops, backed by four tanks, were sent in to fetch them. The Reds hurled spears and barbed-wire flails; the Americans retaliated with tear gas and concussion grenades which stun but do not kill. Fiercest fighters of all were 600 Red amputees who hopped...
Perhaps because the public remembered his own past willingness to run, perhaps for other reasons, the MacArthur thrust failed to create any great stir. Among the great man's well-deserved laurels nestled a bunch of slightly sour grapes...
...Faces of 1952 is a crisp, cheerfully intimate revue that should somehow be funnier. The most professional of Leonard Silurian's various New Faces, it looks trim and moves fast. It is full of sophisticated ideas to be sung or spoken; it exhibits a bunch of likable new faces, a few of which should catch the spotlight more & more. But the product is not quite up to the packaging. For all its expensive gloss, its Raoul Pene du Bois sets and John Murray Anderson staging, it never really bankrolls 'em in the aisles...
Bingham, just out of service, brought in a bunch of young ex-Navy men, hired not for merchandising experience but for organizing ability. "They hadn't acquired the traditional ways of thinking from other stores," says Bingham, who let them learn by their mistakes, and built what many retailers consider the best team of young merchandisers in the business. Bingham startled rivals with a newspaper-advertising splurge such as San Francisco had never seen, forced them to follow suit...