Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lyndon Johnson leaps to mind. He was a product of the tumultuous Roosevelt years, when the court was more enemy than friend. The goal was to get enough of the old gang aboard to have the court with you instead of against you. A molder of men, Johnson knew how to get along with his court. Tom Clark and William Douglas were longtime New Deal buddies, and he kept the friendships going over lunch and on the phone. Hugo Black was out of the Senate tradition, and Earl Warren was a former Governor, the ultimate breed of political survivor. When...
...unusual, at any time and in most places, to come upon a movie crew filming an incredible scene. But this demented episode was disturbingly real. At 5 a.m. on June 27 Gerard Coury, 26, straight-arrow son of a middle-class family, was chased by a gang of some 40 youths into a subway station as onlookers jeered him. He leapt past police, who tried to subdue him, and onto the tracks, where he died-perhaps from touching an electrified rail, or maybe from sheer fright...
...rigid constraints Maoism had imposed on industrial and technological development and on the modernization of the military. The gradual elimination of diehard Maoists from the party, government and military bureaucracies, and the conviction last November on treason charges of Mao's widow Jiang Qing, the leader of the "Gang of Four," greatly aided Deng...
...Chinese table tennis team over the cover price of the 1972 book Eye on Nixon, which chronicled his China travels. The former President was simply recalling how his "Ping Pong diplomacy" with a previous Chinese team nine years ago helped reopen relations between the U.S. and China. The visiting gang of eight presented Nixon with their team banner. He responded with a gift that may result in excess baggage charges on their flight home: autographed copies of the coffee-table tome edited by Daughter Julie Eisenhower and written by former Nixon Speechwriter William Satire. Observed the ex-President...
After reading your article on prison rioting [June 8], I found myself feeling angry and confused. How can prisoners who treat one another so inhumanely through gang rapes, stabbings and beatings demand humane treatment from prison officials and society...