Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Senators took pains to impress the rally with their opposition to the war in Vietnam. They were generally well-received, though there was one "dump Muskie" sign as well as intermittent chants of "dump the whole bunch...
During Cravens' speech Paul Ferolito, a longtime Cambridge resident, interrupted to say, "You people are all a bunch of shirkers. My son was over in Vietnam and he was proud to be there...
Anyway. Baron and Mary and Blaire got this idea together last spring, this fantasy of a fashion, or maybe call it anti-fashion, magazine that didn't tell you what to wear in big 9 x 14 glossies, but just let a bunch of people hang it all out, let 'em rap about what they and their friends were wearing. The kind of magazine that would go out into the street and bring street people back into your home. Like it no longer mattered what you wore to the wedding feast and so there was this real need...
...often violent Philippines. The country is more than usually beset by economic, political and social ills-and by the guns of extremists. The old scourges of the islands, the Huks, have been so cut up by government raids that they now amount to little more than a Mafia-like bunch of "protection" racketeers. But on Luzon, several hundred members of a Maoist New People's Army wage intermittent guerrilla war against the central government. On Mindanao, some 2,000 people died during the past year in clashes between private armies of Christians and Moslems over land and timber holdings...
With music piped into air the suites, plus room service (multilingual waitresses bring the drinks), the accommodations are surprisingly low priced-from $5 to $10. The secret is volume. Most of the rooms are occupied by three different couples a day: the lunch bunch, the after-work crowd and the overnighters. Honeymooners sometimes turn up, as well as old marrieds anxious for a night away from the kids or the in-laws; Santiago has a housing shortage, and few apartments allow much privacy. But 90% of the patrons are young, single Chileans, for whom a bachelor flat is an impossible...