Word: gang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From Manhattan came Detective Charles Nanton; from Oakland, Calif., Sergeant Alexander Smith. The detective credited with solving the seven "Merritt Parkway Bra" murders in Stamford, Conn., Lieutenant George Mayer, arrived. Detroit police lent the services of Lieutenant Gilbert Hill, who cleared up the "Browning Gang" case that had claimed 15 victims. And out of retirement came Captain Pierce Brooks, who caught the killers of a Los Angeles policeman in the celebrated "Onion Field" case...
Just as long as he's better by the next time he comes to the Garden. He wants Craig, and the rest of the gang, to see him at his best...
Like Americans with their election campaign, the Chinese are experiencing one of those news events that get staled by going on far too long. This is the much postponed trial of the Gang of Four. To the West, the Gang of Four is one of those incredible propaganda overkills that take place whenever Communist regimes reverse course and scapegoats must be found. But a trip to China last month in a party of 34 Americans (most of them architects, and mostly from Texas) gave this visitor an appreciation of how useful such a phony campaign...
DIED. Leon Janney, 63, child actor in such movies as Courage (1930), Abie's Irish Rose (1928) and several Our Gang comedies who went on to a busy career in radio, theater, film and television; of cancer; in Guadalajara, Mexico. Janney made his debut as a two-year-old vaudevillian in his home town of Ogden, Utah, portrayed the all-American boy Richard Parker in The Parker Family on both radio and television, and was also noted for roles like Mr. Peachum in the 1956 off-Broadway revival of The Threepenny Opera...
...bulletin boards, then ordered removed, presumably because they show a striking skepticism about the future. Asked, for example, what they thought of the current leaders' ability to achieve the "Four Modernizations," 78% of the students took a noncommittal "wait and see" attitude. When asked whether people Like the Gang of Four could return to power in China within the next ten years, only 5.4% responded with a firm no. More than half replied that such a return was "possible," and 39% said that it would be "difficult to avoid." About their own futures, 54% said that they felt "uncertain...