Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When an overzealous audience at the Edinburgh music festival began to applaud during a two-bar rest in Ariadne auf Naxos, terrible-tempered Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham whirled and shouted, "Shut up!" The audience continued applauding. "Shut up," he snarled, "you bunch of savages...
...could not come to terms with President Lee Varley, who has now retired, it was Savard who stepped in and settled the trouble. The strike, coupled with reduced promotional activities, had clipped Gossard's profit 82% last year. When Savard moved into his new job last week, a bunch of roses from the garment workers' union was on his desk. Said Savard: "Our competitors ran while we stood still, but now we're going...
Academic highlights of the summer was a series of six weekly conferences on such topics an academic freedom, the welfare state, and poetry. The program, arranged by Director William Y. Elliott, Williams professor of History, drew such speakers as Max Lerner, Ralph Bunch, and Stephen Spender...
...place was creeping with "sneak bookies," who hung around picking up bets where they could find them. As the orderly owner of a real classy hotel, he knew this was a situation which should be corrected-what the Roney Plaza needed was a reliable, responsible bookie, not a bunch of fly-by-nights. So Myer Schine eventually made a deal with Frank Erickson, the Mr. Big of U.S. bookmaking, who went to jail after a Senate subcommittee got through with him (TIME, July 3). Schine gave the Roney Plaza bookmaking concession to Erickson...
...important U.S. airport at Pohang on the east coast (nicknamed Cleveland Municipal Airport by the home-town boosters who were based there). The guerrilla force had for several weeks showed up on operational maps as an ominous red circle, but U.S. officers dismissed it with: "Just a bunch of gooks scattered in the hills." Last week the irregulars suddenly increased in number, and they were joined by a large force (about 10,000) of North Korean regulars who slipped south from the Yongdok area through a gap in the South Korean lines...