Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon Atlantic Square was packed by more than 10,000 men & women. They sang The Star-Spangled Banner and Hail! Hail! the Gang's All Here. They shouted and chanted catcalls, cheered the labor leaders who spoke from the Town Hall's steps. They kept it up for two hours, while most business in Stamford stood still...
...much like their cities. The young men were "mild, bland, pseudo-serious ... as though turned out by a university with the aid of a chain-store cloak and suit house." The middle-aged were "puffy, wattle-faced, [filling] the land with prosperous, restless, empty-headed, idle-handed widows who gang together in ghoulish sororities. . . ." The aged were "horrible living examples of the embalmer...
...Crimson teams that have strayed far from their traditional opponents during the past three seasons will be back playing the old Ivy League gang next year, Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 revealed yesterday. When Bingham left his post in November, 1942, Harvard squads dropped out of most of the Eastern league organizations which they had helped to form...
Surrender. One day last month, while fitting shelves in an Atlanta lawyer's office, he laid aside his hammer, turned and said to his boss: "Listen, mister. I'm a fugitive from a Georgia chain gang. I have been for nine years. Now I want to do something about it. I owe it to my wife and children...
...gang of U.S. professional tennis players, which has been discombobulated for years, and for years has talked about getting itself organized, last week did something about it. Lieut. Don Budge, with the well-organized pro golf circuit as his model, buttonholed fellow pros in Los Angeles, and sold them a postwar plan: a pro tennis association, with salaried president and press agent, plans for 20 cash-prize tourneys next year...