Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Perón appeared on a balcony overlooking the square, he disdainfully observed the mayhem beneath him, abandoned his prepared text, and called the demonstrators "jerks." "Today we see that a bunch of adolescents would claim more merit than those who have fought for 20 years," he declared. In pro test, the leftists began leaving the plaza -closely pursued by right-wing Peronistas, who chased them down side streets, beating them with bamboo staves. The day's toll: 90 wounded...
After the race, a casual observer surveying the destroyed Princeton flotilla, remarked, "Princeton sure rowed like a bunch of tiger-lilies today...
...want to exaggerate, but I'd say we gawked at what he showed us as if we were a bunch of sheep seeing through a gate for the first time. When he showed us one of his rockets, we thought it looked like nothing but a huge cigar-shaped tube, and we didn't believe it could fly. Korolyov took us on a tour of a launching pad and tried to explain how the rocket worked. We were like peasants in a marketplace. We walked around and around the rocket, touching it, tapping...
...world's largest capitalist country. I'm not saying that America doesn't have great riches, as well as technological skills. Of course it does; what's true is true. I'm just talking about the exhibit, which consisted mostly of a bunch of photographs, some household products you won't find in any household,* and some pieces of sculpture which were good for nothing but laughing and spitting...
Rather than a noisy crew of twice-victorious Cornellians, the squad that boarded the bus was instead a disgruntled, somewhat shell-shocked bunch of ballplayers who had just split a doubleheader with Harvard. Five Crimson runs in the seventh had seen to that...