Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read, mostly without comment, "Still Falls the Rain," "Three Songs from the Honey Hive" and "The Chain Gang," a poem she said she never had recited before...
...present problem of unifying the services dates from the National Security Act of 1947 which set them up "... under civilian control ... not for merger, but for integration into an efficient team." The act was a compromise affair, reflecting the Navy's old fear of having the other services gang up against it, and the Air Force's equally strong desire to get out from under Army control. The Army wanted to make sure it would get sufficient direct air support, and the Navy plugged for carrier task-forces as our main striking weapon. After the long fight, the office...
...train stop named Porcupine the gang piled off for a drink of "redeye" at a makeshift trackside bar. Not to be shamed, Dean ordered a slug, gulped it down. Up it came. With his companions, the rector's son ran shakily for the train, missed the handrail, fell and knocked himself out. Someone on the platform pulled him clear of the wheels. The train rolled off with the gang and his baggage. It took him several days to catch up, but a determined Dean arrived at the north woods camp at last, to spend a summer learning to smoke...
Last week, a gang of burglars attested to the value of the "love for sale" ads by breaking into the Anzeigen Zentrale, one of Stuttgart's largest billboard agencies. They not only rifled the safe but stole a batch of applicants' letters. "I wonder," mused Agency Boss Erwin Schaeuffele, "whether the burglars won't succeed in winning some of my lady applicants. Many of them are pretty desperate, you know...
...cinematic hot potato which the protests of Jewish groups had kept from U.S. screens (TIME, Oct. 4). A short time later, Berliners themselves protested in more destructive fashion at the movie's faithful portrait of Charles Dickens' "Jew Fagin," fence and brutal master of a gang of young thieves...