Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lower & Lower. "The stevedores'morale is low. One shipping official said: 'My God, there's a strike every day. The rest of the time it's a slowdown, with half the stevedores sleeping in the warehouses on coffee sacks and the hold gang bedding down aboard ship. What in the hell...
Clue to the Worcester leads was supplied by reports that a gang, specializing in daylight robberies, had been seen there for the last two weeks. Police also suspect this group to be the same which committed the sensational $108,000 holdup of the Sturtevant machine company in Jamaica Plain two months...
...Gang...
Bush Christmas is the story of four white Australian children and one black one who set out, under pretense of a short camping trip, to trail a gang of horse thieves. The youngsters follow the bad men into grand, forlorn, unpeopled mountains. They get lost; they run out of food; they lean more & more on the little black boy's irreducible good cheer and his inherent ability to fend for himself. He teaches them not only how to live off the land (fried snakes for Christmas dinner), but also how to make life a merry hell for the horse...
There were about 20 traitors. In the first circle were those whom Miss West calls the children of treason-"The ones who thought like children, and felt like children, and were treacherous as children are, without malice, only because someone was giving away sweetmeats or because the whole gang was chasing...