Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again, units from the 82nd Airborne were brought in to replace the MP's. As they stepped into line, one by one, they stamped to attention and slapped the metal butts of their carbines on the concrete making a frightening sound. While the MP's looked like a bunch of frightened kids in uniform, the paratroopers looked tough and disciplined. The next two hours proved that they were as tough as they looked; as the soldiers inched further into the crowd more people were beaten and torn away from those who tried to hold them...
...posture as all-round team player, gigantic Bounceballer Wilt Chamberlain, 31, no longer scores more points than all the rest of the Philadelphia 76ers put together. He out-salaries the whole bunch of them, though. Fresh off his success in leading the 76ers to the National Basketball Association title last season-his first team championship in eight years in the league-Chamberlain held out until eight days before the season began, finally accepted a $50,000 pay boost, to $250,000-wages about double those of any other regularly employed U.S. athlete and slightly higher than those paid the erstwhile...
...Griswold's Deanship, the Law School was able to do this. The Faculty has expanded sharply, and is still the nation's best, despite frequent foraging expeditions from Washington. And most Faculty members agree with their colleague, Clark Byse, who says, "I can't imagine a brighter, more enthusiastic bunch of students anywhere...
Harvard uses "long-gain" formations simply because it does not have the players to do anything else. In recent years Harvard has not had a bruising halfback who can barrel up the middle for large hunks of yardage: its running talent has been concentrated in a bunch of quick, shifty, and relatively light halfbacks...
...team. He and his predecessor, Mike Higgins, had a vision of the sort of club they wanted to build. A young, enthusiastic team, with powerful hitting, speed, hustle, solid defense, intelligence and a winning attitude. In the process of building it, the Red Sox management looked like a bunch of idiots...