Word: bunche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...each receive 21 annual after-tax payments of about $24,000, starting this year. As the winners contemplated new houses and cars and college tuition for their children, even the losers--and there were a lot of them--seemed to agree: it could not have happened to a nicer bunch. "These guys are like a cross section of America, with every ethnic, racial and religious group represented," said Karl Wallburg, their boss at the George Hantscho Co. press manufacturing plant. "It's like a fairy tale, and all of us here, even those who didn't win, are on cloud...
...movement as a whole because the problems plaguing American labor in general also apply to the United Steelworkers union. Union membership has declined by one half in the last five years. Add this to the depressed American steel industry and you've got a pretty low-spirted bunch of steelworkers...
...Second semester had been better than first, and I really didn't want to start learning a new system. I also told myself that if Harvard had problems, I should stay and help initiate changes. Most of what I told myself, especially the latter part, was just a bunch of crap. I had chickened out, and I knew...
...Reagan was right when he called these guys a bunch of thugs," one hostage whispered. "But he was stupid to say it when he did. Can you believe an American President would say such a thing when American citizens are being held hostage...
...entire western Maine region was lashed with the most vicious thunderstorms I have ever seen." The novella-length story is an exercise in escalating gruesomeness, and the urgency and awkwardness of the narrative lend credence to the preposterous. So does the setting, a supermarket where a random bunch of shoppers have been trapped by what may be the end of the world. Familiar brand names anchor the incredible; a flying monster invades the store and is set on fire by the beleaguered defenders, finally crashing "into the spaghetti sauces, splattering Ragu and Prince and Prima Salsa everywhere like gouts...