Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mound, Jim Colborn (20-12, 3.18 ERA) leads a crew which was bolstered by the acquisition of lefty Clyde Wright from California. In the outfield, Dave May stands out from a generally lackluster crew. In all, a fairly solid bunch. But not a division winner. Prediction: fourth...
Before the current trial of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans got under way, their lawyers worried about how their clients would be treated by a jury made up of a bunch of New Yorkers who had almost certainly been influenced by newspaper and television reports of perjury and influence peddling. So the defense requested that the trial be removed to Meridian, Miss. "There are fewer network shows, fewer newspapers there." But the Mitchell-Stans lawyers surely knew that the wall-to-wall publicity surrounding Watergate has reached into Meridian. Thus their faintly facetious gesture seemed really to be raising...
Once upon a time there was talk of zorn in the old rabbit warren. A bunch of the young bucks got together and agreed (for Frith's sake!) that even if they became hlessil, they had to pull out-and right away...
...punk ass Republicans at Harvard trying to suck up to the vice president" falls below even the characteristically low standards of taste and fairness on which The Crimson prides itself. I can hardly imagine either Mr. Schoen or The Crimson referring to the New American Movement as "a dirty bunch of wimps and faggots" or to the Radcliffe Women's Organization as "a herd of bovine eunuchs," although I don't know, perhaps they would if either group had the temerity to invite the Vice President to Boston. What justification is there, then, for directing such vituperative abuse...
...barge's 20-man drilling crew, which work twelve-hour shifts, are a rugged bunch, mostly from Canada's maritime provinces. They make $4.60 to $7 an hour, spending two weeks on the barge followed by one week off. Nearly every aspect of oil-rig life is designed to speed the race for oil, from plentiful food (four steaks for some at midday dinner) to strictly enforced rules (no booze on board...