Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good pupil, especially at math, Nine likes to classify his knowledge (flags, airplanes, military ranks). Beginning to develop a conscience, Nine takes blame if he thinks he deserves it, but has the inner resources to get along without praise. Nine does not want to be babied, favors his gang over his family...
...Georgia, this is a major calamity. In the past five years Georgia has come a long way from the Tobacco Road and Chain Gang state the country had long way from the Tobacco Road and Chain Gang state the country had long considered it. Spearheaded by such people as Ellis Arnall, Lillian Smith, and perhaps the most progressive press of any state in the Union, Georgia has become the inspiration for all those who work and dream of a forward-looking, democratic, South. The nomination of Talmadge, which is tantamount to election, puts in jeopardy all the advances made since...
...critical raves when released in Paris last March. Ivan, Part II, said Kultura i Zhizn, would not be released because it was "antihistorical and anti-artistic," actually dared to show Ivan "not as a progressive statesman, but as a maniacal villain raging in a circle of a gang of young madcaps...
Civilization. In 1521, Magellan discovered the Philippines for Spain and the white man-and died there in a political gang fight on tiny Mactan. Spanish customs, as well as Spanish laws, were clamped on the bewildered tribesmen like plate mail. With civilization had come the teaching missionary priest, the gold, pearl and hemp trade, running wars between the Dutch and Spanish, the British and Spanish, and the inexorable organization and pacification of the innocent bystanders. By 1892, when the brilliant and visionary mestizo, Dr. José Rizal, began his ideological revolt against the friars and tottering Spain, Spain had given...
Haganah has denounced extremists of the Stern gang and the Irgun Zvai Leumi, which the British have long fought. Last week 31 young Jews (ages 19 to 28), members of the Irgun, were convicted of carrying firearms and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. (One, 19-year-old Benjamin Kaplan, was sentenced to life imprisonment for "discharging a firearm at His Majesty's forces.") In a turbulent three-day trial they shouted anti-British slogans from the dock, quoted Scripture (Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered . . .), chanted in unison "In blood and fire Judah fell; in blood...