Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the local mugs will be billeting at the Commander in a surprise merger with the Supply Waves!!! . . . Now, pleeaassee don't quote me, pal, but I heard a fellow behind me in our first class this morning, and he was bumpin's his gums, giving all the gang the row-down . . . Oh, yeah, all the classes are gonna be held in Memorial Hall, too . . . At least, that's my latest info on it." Scarcely "CRIMSON standards...
...Pepsi-Cola's "Portrait of America" contest. But Pepsi-Cola's President Walter S. Mack Jr. has not been a happy man. Try as he did to stay behind the curtains and let a group of painters run the show, painters and critics alike seemed inclined to gang up on him as a soda-pop Medici, a bumbling Borgia (TIME...
Swart, handsome Jim Rob ("Bob") Wills, 40, son of a Texas sharecropping fiddler, has fiddled since he was ten. At 17 he preached the gospel at rural revival meetings, then joined a gang of promising Texas badmen, two of whom were eventually sentenced to life terms. (One of his record best-sellers is The Convict and the Rose.) Wills and a group of pick-up musicians, calling themselves the "Lightcrust Doughboys," played on W. Lee (Pass the Biscuits, Pappy) O'Daniel's radio show. Wills set to music O'Daniel's Beautiful Texas and Your...
...district doubly grim, Chicago's shrewd, liberal Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil marshaled his stockyard priests to help a new-established Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council fight them down. Soon Bishop Sheil and his aides had playgrounds and young people's clubs going in place of gang fights. The Catholic Church now plays a major role in determining the sentiment of the district-the factor which, in the long run, may well determine the outcome of the dispute. But the Church has rivals: last week, while Catholic priests tramped with the U.P.W.A. pickets, a trailer from Communist...
...defeat him, Russia advanced Norway's Trygve Lie, and moved her supporters on the ballot box like Marshal Zhukov maneuvering his tanks before Berlin. The U.S., favorably disposed toward Lie, and still trying to convince Russia that America and Britain would not gang up against her on every vote, tagged along-but Lie went down to defeat...