Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sutherland Highlanders. The detained correspondents included the New York Post's George L. Cassidy, who said Lieut. Colonel Webb explained that Britain's military policy in Palestine is to have her troops "make such a nuisance of themselves [that] the bloody Jews will cease protecting the Stern gang and other terrorists." Colonel Webb added: "I don't care if I'm out of the Army tomorrow...
...concocted several versions of how her husband had been killed. First, it was by "a gang from Windsor," then by a gang hired by Bohozuk. Her final and "corrected" version was that Dick had been killed by Bohozuk himself under the prodding of her father, who paid him $300 or $400 and lent him a gun because "he hated John's guts." In some of the versions, she admitted that she had driven the car (as charged), had had a hand in disposing of the body...
...Koenigswald found in Java before the war a great bank of soft, eroding stone peppered with ancient fossils. He organized a gang of natives to pick up bones after every rain. At last he got a hatful of humanlike fragments...
...These boys can really take it," Ulen continues, explaining that he had stepped up the mat pounding conditionions schedule from last year to a session of an hour and a quarter. Last year, with practically an all-Freshman outfit, the "My gang is loaded with talent today, but so is every body else.," he added intimating that his water-war had just really begun...
...Bright Day is jampacked with contempt for the unreal life of Hollywood. Nevertheless, Author Priestley manages to fit into his story a stirring boy-meets-girl romance, a stunning film star, and a gang of hearty Yorkshiremen that any Hollywood director would love to get his hands...