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Word: bunchings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...human body he has no sense at all, and one result is his inability (shown in paintings like His Behind the Back Pass, 1979, two wooden Frisbee players on a lawn) to do a simple figure in movement. His colloquialisms let him down; arms become sticks, hands a mere bunch of squarish twigs, feet relate badly or not at all to the ground, while faces, most of the time, are little more than masks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Rockwell of the Intelligentsia | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Back in the days before World War I, Woodrow Wilson decided he had it up to here with a bunch of goons who seized power in Mexico. Much as in Nicaragua, a broad-based revolution toppled the government of an aging, long-ruling dictator, but its democratic elements could not maintain power and were soon pushed out by extremists. While the revolution in Nicaragua was pushed to the left, though, the revolution in Mexico was coopted by elements on the extreme right...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Contra Conniption | 4/9/1986 | See Source »

There is a story, undocumented, supporting this position: it has to do with a bunch of football players sitting around comparing SAT scores. This is normal freshman year behavior, but there was a twist. Apparently the athletes were bragging about who had the lowest SAT scores, because the lower scores meant Harvard must have credited them with greater athletic ability...

Author: By Charlest T. Kurzman, | Title: Pointing the 'Big Finger' | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...They have a pretty wild and notorious bunch up there," said Joe Colbert, who plays for Rhode Island's men's team and made the trip to Cambridge last night to be the game's official scorer. "The coach still doesn't know why they didn't make...

Author: By Mac LA Follette, | Title: W. Water Polo Stood Up by Rhode Island | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

Just under a year ago, I called 100,000 people a bunch of names. I hit 'em, like we used to say in high school, where they lived...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Oh No, Not Again | 3/20/1986 | See Source »

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