Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...composer is that he must be dead." ¶ "We all know that a man who is exposed to strong light for a certain length of time becomes blind. Our existence is a constant exposure to noise . . . The noise may be Bach's B-Minor Mass or just a bunch of accordions. The same noise, you find it in the streets, in cafes, in restaurants, even in taxicabs. Imagine a man who has heard the same Beethoven symphony maybe six times a day in this fashion. Do you expect him to go to a concert in the evening to hear...
Dean Acheson, who made the show run like clockwork, was in his element. Urbane and unruffled, he dealt with the Communists as a Groton football coach with a bunch of interloping ruffians who don't know the rules of the game. He out-talked the Reds without raising his voice, lectured Gromyko on parliamentary procedure, without once getting hot under his immaculate collar or ruffling the tips of his mustache...
...Swarthy, cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko led his 39-man crew off their two private Pullmans at the Oakland mole. They had come directly across the U.S. from Manhattan, without the customary protocol swing through Washington. Gromyko was stopped momentarily when a grey-haired little woman thrust a bunch of red roses into his arms. Then he retreated, in a private limousine flying the hammer & sickle, to the 39-room mansion erected by California's railroad-building Crocker family in suburban Hillsborough (which he had rented at a reported $250 a day in preference to a downtown hotel suite...
...three, he had fallen into the 23-ft.-deep fountain at his native village of Roulans, in eastern France. "Other children would have drowned," he says. "I kicked the bottom and came up to the top without drinking a drop of water." Two years later, a bunch of toughs threw him into a lake; he bobbed to the surface and splashed ashore...
...Governor Jim Duff went to Washington as U.S. Senator last year, he thought he had licked old Republican Boss Joe Grundy once & for all, and had left the state in safe hands. In the bitter Republican primary, Duff denounced Grundy and his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association as a bunch of "high-button-shoe reactionaries." Duff won, against all the power that 87-year-old Grundy could bring against him. With him ran his hand-picked successor as governor, a superior court judge named John Fine...