Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orleans is a conservative town, its bankers an inbred bunch who do not cotton to outsiders. And, as Canizaro remarks, "for many years New Orleans was not pro-Italian." He put a $5,000 deposit on a downtown plot, then tried to borrow more to buy it. "There was enough income coming in from the property to service the debt if only somebody would lend me the money." The Establishment would not. Finally, he found a small bank to make the loan, and he started prospering. Canizaro...
...When they take us seriously, we'll take them seriously. Would you like to have this year's bunch hanging around your factory gates? What's-His-Name sounds as if he should be selling snow tires on TV, and Thingummy keeps stepping on his own necktie...
...bunch of nuts," men mumbled from the street corners. A few began snapping their fingers and grinning broadly at the chants. One strolled into the throng. "Whatchu doin out here, baby?" he leered at one woman. As the neighborhood exposed its hard core, the marchers--many of whom had never been to Times Square before--drew closer together...
...Princeton moved as a bunch and their grouping was too good," Amble said, adding, "We moved as a pack and helped each other, but Princeton was just too far ahead...
...story of the CCC actually begins last summer, when, according to Goetz, "a bunch of us got together to talk about Cambridge." The group particular about issues, instead it wanted to "depolarize" the city council. "There at least two sides to all these issues," Goetz reasons, adding that "city councilors aren't even willing to talk to each other." With the hope of getting Cambridge City government out of deadlock, they endorsed a "moderate slate, filled with people willing to talk and talk until they reached fundamental agreement...