Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headline in the daily party organ, Barricada: IT COULD HAVE BEEN A MASSACRE. In Washington, officials had quite a different reaction to the bungled strike. "They went all that way, got the charge wired in, then they screwed it up," moaned an Administration official. "These guys are like the gang that couldn't shoot straight...
...position that the less said about Pollard, the better it would be for Israel. That cozy arrangement, made possible by the 30-month-old coalition between Likud and Labor, made some Israelis uncomfortable, and a few wags began to refer to the trio of Prime Ministers as the "Gang of Three...
...widely publicized incident last fall, a female student at the University of California, Berkeley, filed a complaint saying she had been gang-raped by a football player she once dated and three of his teammates. The case was dropped, partly because the victim had been drinking. Said Detective Greg Folster of the University of California, Berkeley, police: "I have no doubt that this was a sexual assault, but I don't think the judicial system is quite ready for acquaintance rape...
...look lived-in even when they are freshly pressed, like something hung on a wooden peg behind the back door. She works largely and most successfully in utilitarian fabrics: cotton drill, lining silk and, for the coming season, leather that seems to have been ridden over by a motorcycle gang on a rainy Sunday. Her lines are loose and simple, the detailing fine and witty and heavy on the pockets. The clothes are not remakes of hardy perennials like parkas and biker jackets, but revisions of them. Even her dressier duds have the aged-in feeling of favored sportswear. Maybe...
...theirs. A person who gathered with the family to talk about the crisis said it was plain that for the moment she was the stronger of the two. "Then her strength made him seem weaker," added this friend. "You want something done?" whispered one of the old California gang during this time. "Then talk to Nancy. When I see them at night, I talk with him about three minutes and with her 20 minutes...