Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circulation managers themselves are worthy models for such men as Sbar. The manager of the Daily News ran a gang of toughs for his former Chicago employer, personally shot down a competitor, and was promoted to the New York paper for the efficacy of his methods, so drastic that they often consisted in dumping large hijacked assignments of rival newspapers into the Chicago river...
...Stalin in which he warns the powers to "keep their swinish snouts out of the Soviet potato patch" and in similar pronouncements by his associates. What the Russians fear is that in case of a war with the Japanese the rest of the capitalist powers are going to gang up on Russia and engage in a good deal of international eye-gouging and groin-kicking at the expense of the USSR; if Germany and other European states launch an attack upon Russia at the same time that Japan does, it is obvious that the results are going to be pretty...
...Studs's musings never came to anything. By & large he was well content to be one of the boys and proud of his reputation as a hard guy. Then the neighborhood began to lose caste with an invasion of Negroes. When the Lonigans moved out the old gang broke up. On a sentimental journey back to his boyhood streets Studs saw that his world's base had been built on stubble, felt to his secret horror that he himself was growing soft, slack, ignoble...
...little luck until a chambermaid named Suzanne Schlitz felt hungry in a cheap hotel on the Boulevard de Strasbourg. She bit into an apple lying on a table and broke her tooth on the Grand Conde. Within a few days Jean Chiappe had rounded up the entire gang...
Trainer Beatty thanked his stars that the other lions & tigers had not mixed in with Sammy and Bessie. Fights have cost him 16 tigers, two lions. Lions usually gang up on a tiger, which always fights alone. Animal men like to speculate on how an evenly-matched lion and tiger would make out in single combat. Trainer Beatty would bet on the lion...