Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manages to snare a "big name" in what Master Finley calls the "celebrity race," it has not necessarily scored an educational triumph. Under the pressure of crowded schedules, well-known writers and statesmen can not stay as long as they--or the Masters--would like. "It takes a Harvard bunch four or five days to get to know anyone," observed Master Perkins, and unless a visitor can do more than eat and run, "it seems a little excessive to pay his travel expenses and a generous honorarium just to let students shake his hand." However, as Finley pointed...
...more or less recognizes in himself. They are not even on the level with one another. When they play poker to see who will do the actual shooting, the cards are stacked by drunken Eduardo and tough-talking little Luis so that David, the kindest and weakest of the bunch, has to do the dirty work. The deed-getaway car and all-is planned coldly by Agustin, a young painter for whom art is not enough. The crime fails not because his plan is faulty but because David cannot pull the trigger as he faces the easy victim.* The gang...
...never before, the President himself is coming under personal attack within the family. Said one angry family critic last week: "He's not so much indolent as he is tired and immobile. He has lapsed into almost total unwillingness to shake into the kind of action this bunch wants...
...onetime (1933-45) Democratic Congressman from California, former literary editor of the Los Angeles Times; in South Pasadena, Calif. Re-election in 1944 would have been a sure thing for Congressman Ford, but he refused to run, called the U.S. House of Representatives "the least enlightened and dumbest bunch I ever had anything to do with...
...ghost shimmered as he shuddered. "A bunch of limp and gutless people trembling for fear they might like something they shouldn't. They have to be told by Experts what is good...