Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee violently disagrees with Von Hoffman. "We're not talking about cruel management or an exploited working class," he retorts. "We're talking about a bunch of criminals who slash tires and smash presses and hit women over the head with two-by-fours. I have no lint left in my navel for that." Graham makes the same point more moderately: "We are not union busting. That means an unwillingness to bargain, which just isn't the case here. They [the pressmen] wouldn't negotiate. They busted themselves...
...their opponents, while Jim Cocoran also cruised to an 8-1 win on the way to a 3-0 sweep of his matches. A healthy Jon Franklin, who had been plagued by two shoulder fractures in two years, shellacked his Kings Point opponent. Lee termed the opposition "a rugged bunch of kids" but the Commanders were erased 28-11 by the Crimson...
Then came the Beanpot tourney, and a blind date with a bunch of dogs (Terriers to be exact) in the finals. B.U. didn't care for previous insults, and returned the favor by dumping Harvard...
...Dockendorff, who led a team of firefighters on the Belknap, found that he had more volunteers than he could use. Tugging hoses, the men advanced on the fires, retreated momentarily when shells went off, then resumed the attack. Says one seaman who watched the battle: "That was either a bunch of brave guys or a bunch of fools...
...what works. West Side Story certainly doesn't look to me like anything that would have worked, and at the time we did it nobody thought it would. Cabaret: certainly the same thing. There was such a sense of "You're not serious! You're going to bring a bunch of Nazis on stage and do that!" Well, we did it. So I'm encouraged that there's an audience for this show...