Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bunch of the boys were whooping...
...counterattack of the war, launched with the first Sherman tanks committed to battle. In the sector south of fallen Chonan, the Reds, who had not expected U.S. tanks in action against them, were caught off balance. Lieut. Joe Griffith of Charleston, S.C. said: "The Commies took off like a bunch of scared rabbits when the tanks opened up." One Sherman ambushed an enemy T-34, crippled it at a toothsome range of only ten yards, and triumphantly towed it to headquarters for scrutiny. The Americans, who had fallen back ten miles the day before, regained all of the lost ground...
...lovely widowed mother. She has made up to him for his father's death by being even more to him than most mothers. But when she falls in love with a young man, she has little time for Agostino. Idling about the beach, he gets in with a bunch of young toughs, sons of the waiters and fishermen. They know a world which well-to-do Agostino has never even glimpsed, a world of hardship and cynicism just beneath poverty-stricken Italy's thin skin of luxury and pleasure...
...Maria Deckx (rhymes with hex) explained to a local judge two weeks ago: "I have always been nice to Mrs. Minnen, but I didn't want a lot of birds around my house. Your honor, what would you, as a judge, do with a bunch of sparrows?" Judge Albert Boone solemnly turned to his two colleagues on the bench and put the question to them, but they could only shrug their shoulders in answer...
Something Important. His career prospered and his salary increased. So did his political activities. Said a fellow writer: "You have a bunch of talented, sensitive writers who get no ego satisfaction out of their work. A story comes out on the screen a couple of years later bearing almost no relation to what they wrote. They only work about half a year, yet they want to feel that they're doing something important. So they take up the cause of the proletariat...