Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following a devastating overtime loss to Georgetown earlier in the week, B.C. looked anything but sharp last night. However, the Crimson cagers continued to meet with failure in their shooting touch and, as a result, handed the Chestnut Hill gang a sloppy win in what started out as a reasonably interesting basketball game...
...celebrity guests occasionally drop by to take part in the action: Tennis Pro Arthur Ashe, for example, hits a serve timed by radar, and Actor Gene Wilder illustrates communication by talking to a dog. The episodes end with a minimystery film starring three young detectives, known as the Bloodhound Gang, who reason their way to the solution of a crime...
...even more momentous than the opening to China was the unprecedented economic performance by Japan and the East Asian "Gang of Four" (Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore). By the end of the 1970s, Japan was producing about almost ten million cars, about one hundred times the car production 20 years earlier. From a nonexistent steel production in the early '50s, Japan was producing by the end of the 70s about as much steel as all of Europe combined or as much as the United States, but in much more modern facilities. It was producing more ship-building tonnage than...
...after its own violent '60s. The rest of the world suffered a long siege: 17 died in the Palestinian terrorists' attack at the Olympic Village in Munich in 1972. Twenty-five died when terrorists opened fire in the Tel Aviv airport the same year. The Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy turned life for European executives into a routine of paranoid precautions. Former Premier Aldo Moro was kidnaped and executed. With grotesque ingenuity, Italian terrorists practiced "kneecapping"-blowing holes in their victims' knees. Hijackers in the '70s forced every major airport...
They were known as the Broad Street Bullies, a roughhouse squad more adept at manhandling than stickhandling. Their street-gang tactics earned them an eight-year stretch as the champs of the National Hockey League penalty box, including a record 33 hours in 1975-76. For a while it paid off. The Philadelphia Flyers won the Stanley Cup in 1974 and 1975, then began to fade. This year the Flyers still lead the league in penalty minutes-old habits die hard-but something new has been added: the elegant, almost choreographed blend of skating and passing precision developed...