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Word: bunche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 30, 1950 | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Mr. Shepard and the Resurrection | 1/26/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 1/18/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Making of a Maverick | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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