Word: bunking
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...that gossip is usually an instrument with which people unconsciously evaluate moral contexts. That's bunk. Gossip is a conscious act and should be described as a socially acceptable form of aggression...
...would be too much of a storyteller's exaggeration to suggest that in the middle of an electronic giant's bunk-presto! -the art of the storyteller is about to recapture the castle. But certainly more things are happening on the stage of the Rockport Opera House, and elsewhere, than the programmers of the age of television ever dreamed of. This year of the First Annual North Atlantic Festival is also the year of the First Storytelling Festival in New York City, the Second Annual Storytelling Festival in St. Louis and the Third Annual New Mexico Storytelling Festival...
Perhaps her athlete's instincts told King that when the ghastly truth splits open like a suitcase, one's moves must be fast and sure. Public figures rarely have that aplomb: when someone abruptly turns on the light and catches them, they bunk in astonishment and guilt or reach their palms out desperately to cover the lens of the minicam...
...first three months of college the guy who slept on the bunk above me shared my prepophilia. We both came from high-powered East-coast suburban public high schools. Some of our high school classmates had displayed transparent pretensions to "the life," but they never got much closer than the clothing, or maybe a convincing adulteration of the language. When we arrived here we determined independently, and after a while in cooperation, to get to the bottom of this business, to unearth the secrets of this preppy stuff...
...Orleans as far back as memory runs, marching brass bands have always tried to spread a bit of joy after the sorrow of a burial. Every jazz giant in the New Orleans pantheon-Kid Ory, Jelly Roll Morton, Bunk Johnson-developed his art partly by playing for funerals. The king of them all, Louis Armstrong, played a funeral the very day in 1922 when a telegram sent him off to join King Oliver in Chicago and soon onward to world fame...