Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a topnotch director, a novelist with a sense of humor, and a bunch of witty actors meet on the Italian Riviera, the result can be a good time. When the director is John Huston, the writer Truman Capote, and when the actors include Bogart, Lorre and Lollobrigida, the result was Beat the Devil, and it is a very good time...
These charges were denied by other Council members who argued that "there is no point in bringing up a bunch of charges which may or may not be true...
Spector characterized this type of attitude as "highly deplorable, and threatening to thwart interest in rocketry." He complained that the Society was being "treated like a bunch of high school boys playing with fireworks...
Miss Betty Lou Pinkus, head majorette of the Indiana State Normal College, commented last night, "It's just a wonderful idea for Radcliffe coeds to lead Harvard cheers. I don't wonder that cheerleading is in such a bad way at Harvard if all they have is a bunch of boys...
...there is more to this decision than mere dissatisfaction with the current cheerleaders' behavior and organization. Pretty clearly the Council hopes that its athlete-cheerleaders will command more support from the stands than even the most sedate and well-organized bunch of lay-cheerers. It believes that most undergraduate spectators will know by sight at least a few of the prominent athletes holding the megaphones, and will respond more eagerly to their urgings...