Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall of soldiers and a way out of Tel Aviv. British troops made widespread searches for terrorists, collared many in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem who were merely terrorized. The Jews managed sly smiles at a British announcement that 25 "known members of the extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang had been taken during "Operation Hippo" (the Army's designation for its application of martial law). Said Tel Avivians: "Hippo labored and brought forth a mouse...
...theory that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. The test is hazardous, for since only human beings get yellow fever, only human beings can serve as guinea pigs.* The first tests, moreover, are bungled; but eventually, after an Army doctor has died, a soldier has been inoculated by press-gang methods, and four others have become guinea pigs voluntarily, experiment turns into proof...
...than they were outside; in some schools they looked like rehearsals for chaos. Bobby-soxers roamed from room to room, singing, cheering and shrieking. Some scrawled on blackboards: "Teacher is a scab." As soon as a harassed schoolmarm managed to herd one group of revelers into a classroom, another gang careened into the corridor. Policemen tried to talk the pupils into going home, but the kids were having too much fun in school...
...picket line in front of L'Humanité was rushed by 350 members of a Comité de Défense de L'Humanitè, a fancy name for a gang of thugs hired by L'Humanité's circulation department. After a brief battle, the pickets (about half of whom were members of the Communist Party) beat off L'Humanité's defenders. In similar cases capitalist publishers would be likely to charge that the strike was led by Communists. L'Humanité could not do that. Its friends said the strike was led by Trotskyites...
...Gale, the newly appointed Military Governor of Tel Aviv, said the main objective of the marital law decree was to "paralyze and eradicate" the Stern Gang and Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish underground resistance groups...