Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jokes Belgian Painter Constant Permeke, 64, pointing to the brooms in the corner of his studio. At first glance, Permeke's lowering land and seascapes, bulky peasants and heavy-limbed nudes look as though they might well have been swept on to the canvas with a carelessly bound bunch of straw. But their spontaneity and crudely powerful draftsmanship have earned him a place as a leader of Belgian expressionism and, according to some critics, "one of the most incontestable masters that Belgium has given...
Republicans in Diapers. "I've been subjected to the damndest bunch of intellectual balderdash that I've seen come out of politics in a hell of a long time. I've been represented as being responsible for the 'Pearl Harbor whitewash' [he was counsel for the Pearl Harbor Committee], although I battled the committee for a whole month. I've been accused of being responsible for everything the Loyalty Review Board did, although I sat in just two cases . . . I've been charged by Republicans . . . with being only a nominal Republican, and these...
...this week the Brooklyn Dodgers were beginning to make the other entries in the National League pennant race look like a bunch of platers chasing Man o' War. It was no longer a question of who would win the race, according to happy Dodger supporters, it was now just a matter of the Dodgers' winning margin. Even Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen, after watching his team win its sixth straight and stretch its early-season lead to 6½ games, abandoned the manager's traditional attitude of dour dismay to admit: "The team that beats...
...French Titoists announced that they would run candidates in 30 departments, held their first big rally. At the meeting in Paris' gaudy Salle Wagram Communists threw tear-gas bombs. Several people had to be carried from the hall. Said the Communist Humanite about the group: "A bunch of traitors . . . collected from various garbage cans...
When it was over, the audience gurgled like a bunch of doting mothers. Gushed one matron: "Angels-all of them!" Director Caso had polished the Arizona Boys Chorus well. They were as well disciplined as paratroopers. And their voices, like their faces, were shiny and pure...