Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bunch of firemen standing in my room with axes is not my idea of a surprise party," she said...
...dancers is neither appreciated nor taken seriously. Dance being, of course, for bidden in Ohio, the kids is forced to rehearse in abandoned warehouses and to run away to New York without telling their parents. New York, that mecca of artistic opportunity, proves to be tougher than this bunch bargained for. Braving myriad evils, from muggers to threatening rival dance groups, from discouraging agents to hordes of mohawked, leather-clad punks, the Adventurous Eight pirouette their way to stardom, shedding only a few poignant tears of disappointment along...
...population had dwindled from 5,000 in the 1880s to 500 in the late 1960s, when political activists and dropouts looking for a Rocky Mountain high started moving in. Native Elvira Wunderlich, 70, remembers the hippies as "just a bunch of trust funders and freeloaders." But the newcomers brought along their political savvy and quickly commandeered the town council from the locals, known as the elks (because of their frequent meetings at the Elks Club). Says former Mayor Jerry Rosenfeld, 44, a Denver dropout from the Eugene McCarthy campaign: "We were going to build a utopia here...
Take a crucial dual match against arch-rival Princeton, a bunch of supercooled squash courts, hordes of hostile Princeton fans, mix it all together, and what...
...bishops are all hunkering down in the grass like a bunch of guinea hens," says Margaret Traxler. "Wait a minute, I don't want to insult the hens. They (the bishops) don't stir a feather because they fear for their own tails...