Word: bunches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decided that I could really use an "-ism." An "-ism" is something that was defined for me a long time ago by my high school European history teacher. Nationalism, Socialism, Communism--"-isms" were things that could make a bunch of disgruntled peasants forget their gripes about the government and focus their energies on their hate for other countries, he explained. "-Isms" were things that people didn't mind going to war for. Meanwhile, in the back of the classroom, my neighbor claimed that he could really get this country going by dispersing the seeds of "j-ism" to the population...
...Sterling Darling's dorm room might have been ransacked by proletariat rebels who whisked away all remnants of popular culture. The only decorations left in his Currier House single are antique desk ornaments, an English history book, and some pictures. One of them is "a bunch of lawyers, or something" he says. There is also a Texas flag. Sterling, dressed in a button-down shirt tucked always into neatly-pressed khakis, sat under the flag and answered FM's nervous-laughter-inducing questions about haircuts, Colt .45 and the beef MexiMelt...
...terrible accident outside. This car just swiped the side off of this gray Volvo." She had a gray Volvo. We went outside and the car was fine. He had a big old laugh. So we said "We're gonna get you." So we got about ten football players, a bunch of tissue, tape, shaving cream and streamers. And we wrapped them around his truck. And we had football players pick up his truck and turn it horizontal in the parking place. We were like "We told you you were going DOWN!" The principal called us into the office next week...
...shadow of the Giza pyramids outside Cairo, in what she envisions as the most notable kite flight since Ben Franklin's. In the meantime, Clemmons is taken with the idea that a hobbyist like herself might somehow scoop all the pyramid experts. "Other research expeditions had a bunch of men pushing and pulling," she says. "Mine will be me and my girlfriends with kites and a pack of beer, sitting in lawn chairs, waiting for the wind to kick...
...MOVE] The Fun Bunch...