Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more savage scene was played out on 14th Street. A gang pulled one white from his car and beat him unconscious...
...extensive was the take that Spanish police assumed that the operation had been carried out by a sizable and experienced gang. The burglars were so familiar with the bank, investigators theorized, that they must have rented a box at some point in order to case the place. One immediate suspect: Frenchman Albert Spaggiari, 50, who with seven accomplices in 1976 hit a Societe Generate branch in Nice for $ 10 million in cash and other valuables. Spaggiari was nabbed by police for that heist, but escaped one year later by jumping out the window of a magistrate's office where...
...until at the end of the show one can scarcely hear the announcer and literally no one is paying the band the slightest attention. This is, I believe, an accurate description of the Yale game halftime this year. The only relief was provided by the antics of the MIT gang...
...gang of at least three thieves that hit the Bronx-based Sentry Armored Car Courier Co. went about their business with remarkable efficiency. Near midnight two of the bandits, dressed in ski masks and gloves, climbed onto the roof of the two-story Sentry building. Using metal-cutting tools, they sawed a 2-ft. hole in the roof and lowered themselves down a rope. Armed with a double-barrel shotgun, they gagged and handcuffed the only guard on duty. A crowbar was used to break the locks off the metal door to the basement "money room." There, some $30 million...
THERE ARE A FEW rough spots. The men working in the chain gang under the noon sun in the opening shots do not seem to sweat; their shirts are dry and pressed. Some of the dialogue in the police precinct is terrible: "You know," says a female ballistics expert to Nolte, "there are some really bad people out there." Nolte quips in return that they would all be out of a job if it weren't for the bad people. Back to the streets...