Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the President of the U.S. last week. Then he went on to explain. The U.S., said Harry Truman, was engaged in a police action. A "bunch of bandits" had attacked the Republic of Korea-a government established by the United Nations-and the Security Council had asked U.N. members to suppress this bandit raid. That was what the U.S. was doing. "We hope we have acted in the cause of peace-there is no other reason for the action we have taken," said Truman...
...quick to point out that it had only found 16 football lettermen in its 308 selections so far. But there was no doubt about the Navy's plans. Said a jubilant spokesman: "This will mean 20 more good men on the football squad ... we have a certain bunch of boys in mind...
With such kid-glove finesse, Bucky had a bunch of bushers looking like ballplayers, had them believing they were not as inept as past performance (in the cellar, 47 games out of first place last year) would indicate. At week's end Washington had won 19 of its first 39 games, and was in fifth place...
...picture editor of TIME, stuck to her guns. Asked if she thought Adler and Draper were traitors, she answered, "Yes," and asserted that she still thought she had done a civic duty in trying to keep them out of Greenwich. "You can't sit back like a bunch of capitalistic fat cats and do nothing," she said angrily, "when these people come here for large fees...
Best drawn of the bunch is bored, bulky, candy-crazy Hostess Harries herself, whose fingers ache so much from signing checks that she abbreviates her signature to "Mgt Harries." She would like to divorce her Republican husband, who turns blood-red at the very mention of Eugene Debs, but "it is too much trouble," she says, "and besides, I need him to manage the servants...