Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey popped up in the U. S. Senate last week to introduce a resolution reminiscent of the long-dead concept of Manifest Destiny.* The resolution: to admit Cuba as a State into the Union. The Senator's pop-up was unfortunate for Good Neighborism. In Havana a gang of youths hurled bottles through the plate-glass windows of a Woolworth 5-&-10? store with notes in the bottles saying: "Down with the American Senate!" "This reply to the American Senator!" In Madrid the Falangist newspaper Arriba seized upon the resolution as an indication of U. S. imperialism, observed that...
...submachine gun never got a real hold in World War I, soon afterward began to figure more in gang news than in Army talk. Of 15,000 Thompsons ("Tommies") manufactured by Colt in 1921, nearly 5,000 were still unsold 18 years later. But World War II revised military opinion: the light, easily handled submachine gun (spitting a stream of .45-calibre bullets 300-400 yards, battle sight-i.e., point-blank range) turned out to be a potent weapon in shock tactics. Recently Great Britain was reported eager to buy 250,000 to 500,000 from...
...course the professors don't call themselves Ku Klux Klanners. They call themselves patriots who are acting in their country's best interests when they gang up on some disagreeable neighbor and run him out of town before daybreak," Waldrop writes...
...Orleans, 73,000 fans filled the Sugar Bowl to watch undefeated Tennessee play undefeated Boston College. When the sun had set on as hair-raising a game as has been seen all fall, the underdog Boston gang, led by scrawny Charlie O'Rourke, a 158-lb. stringbean, had proved that they could take care of themselves in any company...
...were premier? and the answer is obviously, No. Or again, Would Churchill, Bevin and Morison be in power in England now if England had declined to fight? Again, No. Who would have been? The same group that Laval represented in France; the determined enemies of every social reform; the gang which will always benefit by appeasement. In regard to the American situation, then, just who will be in power if we pursue an anti-British policy? or, more concretely, who are the boys who are yelling against aid to England...