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Word: bunched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...locals, on the other hand, are a rather discouraged bunch at present. In their appalling 44 to 73 loss to Cornell Tuesday, the Crimson players did not work well together and did not appear much interested in who won the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Team Underdog In Second Columbia Game | 2/17/1951 | See Source »

...independence ever since he fled from the towering reputation of his famous publishing father, Old Ed Howe, Kansas' "Sage of Potato Hill." When Gene was 15, sharp-penned Old Ed wrote: "Three Atchison young men disgraced themselves . . . Saturday. The publisher's son was the drunkest of the bunch." Gene struck west, and after six years as a reporter, came back and soon took over the Atchison Globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Texan | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...said that when he joined the organization over a year ago, he thought "that it supported all liberals, including Republicans, but it turns out it's a bunch of liberals with Democratic stripes." In a letter answering a request for his January A.D.A. dues, Cherington attacked the Democratic party in Massachusetts, branding it a "contemptible group, especially Dever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cherington Attacks 'Tub-Thumpers', Resigns from Massachusetts A.D.A. | 2/7/1951 | See Source »

...know what to think: it would be the final, but not unexpected, proof of U.S. cultural barbarism. At the University of Glasgow (founded 1451), students have been throwing things for generations, have made public uproar an honored tradition. A visiting Frenchman once called Glasgow's men "the greatest bunch of savages in Europe," and Glaswegians took it as a compliment. Last week, stimulated by both the university's 500th anniversary and Scotland's hullabaloo over the Stone of Destiny, the Glasgow savages outdid themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One of the Liveliest | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

Said one conferee: "The atmosphere is that of a bunch of big brothers returning home from abroad and swapping ideas around the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: The Big Brothers | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

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