Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poured down on the wheat fields of Red River Valley and on the crowd gathered around a dusty truck. A sunburned farmer squinted appraisingly at a little man standing and shouting on the truck's tailpiece. "He wouldn't be no account on a thrashin' gang," the farmer said. "But I reckon he's smart. And he talks plain...
...oats. Oats cannot tolerate hot weather. As fast as the ground dries in March, it must be ploughed-usually in a race between rains. Up at 4 or half-past, Dale Kuester turns on the lights of his Massey-Harris "101" Senior tractor, rockets out to the gang plough and buzzes off for a working day that often ends, as it began, in darkness. Last March Dale Kuester ploughed 20 acres of oat land in 18 hours-something like making a 500-mile automobile trip in ten hours. By the second week in April the Kuesters' 47 acres...
...Farming began for Gus Kuester when he was eight. At eleven he was doing a man's job day in & day out with the threshing gang. School (he attended only the winter terms) ended for Gus with the eighth grade when his father died (1904). Gus, then 16, managed and farmed 400 acres for his mother...
...personally directed his lusty, incredibly wealthy network, kept it staffed with an unusual collection of young men. When he returned to his desk after 24 months overseas, Bill Paley decided to shake up his first team. Last week, after four months of line-up juggling, he had a gang as open-eyed as himself...
...Gilbert made no answer, tried to hurry on. Two pursuers blocked their path, insisted: "Are you Jews?" "No," said poor. He was not-Gilbert was. They quickened their pace. When Poor, to cover his nervousness, reached into his pocket for matches to light a cigaret, one of the gang yelled: "They have a knife!" Seven or eight boys leaped on the two Freshmen. Badly mauled, both spent the night is Stilman Infirmary...