Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guys were like a bunch of cats," Co-Captain Paul Palandjian "they really licked those Navy guys clean...
...contrast, Newdick says the Tobin children are basically a great bunch except that occasionally they get out of hand. "They're wildly energetic and not easy to keep under control. They're unwieldy sometimes," Newdick says...
YESTERDAY in English, I sat in the back row and noticed that my classmates' clothes managed to touch on every color in the rainbow. Their apparel even covered a bunch of colors that usually get left out of rainbows. My eyes, when they happened to stray from the podium, caught flashes of robin's-egg-blues and dark browns, pinks and greens and yellows and ragg wool sweaters. Brights and darks and neons and dulls, splattered on everything from tank tops to overcoats...
...astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink of rum! Now the entire party, pulsing with the calypso beat, dances around the table like frenzied Jamaican dockworkers. Lift six-foot, seven-foot, eight-foot bunch! Monstrous arms spring out of the shrimp tureens and leech onto the faces of the revelers. Who on earth has possessed them...
That is a long way from the $150 a week Griffin made as a Big Band crooner in the late '40s, when he recorded I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts. Once a boy blimp who weighed 240 lbs., Griffin shed a third of that bulk so he could sing on stage. He later had a brief movie career, which included one line in a Doris Day film. Guest appearances for Jack Paar, Johnny Carson's predecessor in NBC-TV's late-night spot, won Griffin his own daytime talk show in 1960, which he syndicated...