Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dear Lady: Having attained an age when the comforts of home and a warm cheerful hearth have more of an attraction for me than chewing the fat with a bunch of laid-by sourdoughs, I have read everything in TIME including the list of editors, where I ran onto your name. At the risk of being a bit impertinent, is that your name or just your business name? My father's people came from New England . . . and your name recalled pictures of homes there belonging to my ancestors. It kind of animated old memories...
Shepard started about as mush from scratch as a coach can start. He inherited an 18 game losing streak from his predecessor, Bill Barclay, minus Barclay's beat playmaker, Chip Cannon, and best individual player. Walt McCurdy. He also accumulated a bunch of sophomores, none of whom ran much over five-feet eight. Shepard put on a sweatshirt and started trying to discover if he had a team...
This state of affairs has not embittered him. "Professional swimmers are a bunch of fools," he says; and as far as his professional swimmin gis concerned, he does not expect to be treated like anything but a fool. Four years of steady competition has given him a philosophy: "The biggest thrill in pro swimming is when you get the prize money right in your hand...
...They bedeviled his witnesses, dug up old ordinances to confound him. Douglas confessed to friends: "I have three degrees. I have been associated with intelligent and intellectual people for many years. Some of these aldermen haven't gone through the fifth grade. But they're the smartest bunch of bastards I ever saw grouped together...
Heaven only knows that the Communists . . . have enough material with which to belittle and undermine our form of government in the eyes of the people they seek to unite, without [Senator Elmer] Thomas and a bunch of other saps going over and indirectly but very effectively helping...