Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain, is the ex-consul's halfbrother, Hugh, a leftwing, guitar-playing rover who has been in love with Yvonne for years. By nightfall of the same day, Hugh and Yvorme have been drawn together-and the helpless consul is lying dead in a ravine, shot by a gang of Mexican semi-fascist desperadoes who mistake him for his leftist halfbrother...
...Indoor Athletic Building last night and when the battered gladiators finally admitted that it was time to go home, Leverett House had stepped into a first place tie with Dunster by downing a wideopen Winthrop five 29 to 22 and the Elephants had defeated a gas-house Kirkland gang 44 to 41, to cop their first victory of the race...
Capone never paused in his drive for power. He bought politicians wholesale and had complete immunity from the law-from 1923 to 1926 Chicago had 135 gang killings, six arrests, one conviction, no executions. He gained control of gambling, prostitution, dance halls, dog tracks and roadhouses as well as the enormous beer and liquor business. The U.S. called him Public Enemy...
Next morning, while armored cars roamed Jerusalem streets, the terrorists struck again. While a courtroom crowd watched, another gang of two women and eight men forced Judge Ralph Windham, still in his wig and gown, from his Tel Aviv district court bench...
...Frank ("The Old Flash") Frisch, 48, onetime second-baseman for the New York Giants, and pepperpot manager of the famous St. Louis Cardinal "Gashouse Gang," a man who outtalked his foes when he couldn't outplay them, the game's most impish umpire-baiter. He stepped out last fall as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, now raises flowers at his New Rochelle (N.Y.) home, hopes to broadcast New York Giant games this season...