Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luci & Lynda Bird. For all the troubles swirling about him, Johnson was still quick to bristle at charges that his Great Society is being sacrificed to foreign crisis. "It's just a bunch of blarney," he declared. "When I hear this argument that we can't protect freedom in Europe, Asia, or our own hemisphere and still meet our domestic problems, I think this is a phony argument. It's just like saying I can't take care of Luci because I have Lynda Bird...
...some 30 years on the farms for murder and robbery, identified one of the skeletons as Jake Jackson, a Negro whom he had helped bury on Christmas Eve, 1946. Prison records indicated that Jackson had "escaped" two days later. Around Labor Day in 1940, he said, "they killed a bunch of them-I'd say about 20." Asked why the men had been murdered, Johnson said: "For money. You need money to make it here." Often he had to pay $2 or $3 a week for protection himself...
...because there's always bound to be a bunch...
...down by the newsmen I met--cigars, paunches--a surly bunch. They sneered, guffawed, and went back to crank out their stories with information they didn't take seriously anyway. One of the accredited freelancers I met was from the Dartmouth student paper. Complete with work shift, a bit of a beard and steel-rimmed glasses, he seemed decidedly unmilitary and way out of his element. But he had considerable success in selling enough material to support himself in Saigon. He first broke even with the sale of a story and pictures to Parade Magazine about the mortaring incident...
...Weak Links. There is overwhelming evidence that the V.C. barrage is backfiring badly. Black American soldiers are not flattered by such wooing. "It's a bunch of jibe," says Negro Platoon Sergeant John F. Foulks. "I read it-and forgot it." Other Negro soldiers get angry. "Where was all this brotherhood crap when my friends got killed?" asks SP4 Gerald Walker...