Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zimbabwe Rhodesia have come a long way to a ceasefire. In the early days of the war, when they crossed the Zambezi River in dugout canoes carrying rusting shotguns and hunting rifles to make hit-and-run attacks on isolated farms, a white Rhodesian officer dismissed them as "a bunch of bloody garden boys." Such sarcastic putdowns no longer apply. The Soviet-and Chinese-trained "freedom fighters " of the Patriotic Front have been forged into an efficient guerrilla force. Despite their edge in air power, some of Zimbabwe Rhodesia's white-led array units have been routed by rebel...
According to aides, Carter is also angered by the duplicity of the Iranian militants at the embassy in pretending, as one aide put it, "that they are just a bunch of philosophy majors acting for reasons of conscience." Although the majority of the militants do appear to be students, Washington officials insist that the leaders are veteran leftists in their 30s and 40s, many of whom were trained in guerrilla tactics by Palestinian groups...
...question was just to put a program together for women that is economical, and to fight through that stereotype image and myth about the female being the weaker sex and all those things which is a bunch of crap." Arnold sounded a little like Henry Kissinger, a little like Bela Lugosi. He told Hercules about how women have 25-30 per cent fewer muscle cells, how they don't have testosterone, how he never met a woman who was satisfied with her looks. Then...
...What an effort those guys made," coach Bill McCurdy said. "We made it with guys that were nowhere around at the beginning of the season. This is just a bunch of guys that are going to try for it even if they have no business doing...
...production has no pretense of saying something new and provocative about Brel, or in fact saying anything about him at all; and the sparse attendance at last Saturday night's performance ought to suggest that there's less than all-consuming interest in another musical revue, another bunch of songs, among student audiences...