Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election. The sure winner in the battle of personalities (rather than of municipal issues): 55-year-old, Erin-born Democratic and American Labor Party Candidate William O'Dwyer, onetime New York City cop, onetime Brigadier General in the U.S. Army who, like Tom Dewey, gained fame as a gang-busting district attorney...
...Palestine, carefully planned by a "very considerable organization among the Jewish community." Hall did not identify the organization. But two groups, both disavowed by the Jewish Agency, were almost certainly involved: the strongly militant underground Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) and its still more aggressive offshoot, a gang of gunmen who called themselves "Israel's Freedom Fighters." Both were wellarmed, experienced guerrillas whose credo was: the time for talk is past...
...parish in Manchester, he invited the Harlem pastor, the Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, up to preach. Mr. Bishop had heard of the Harlem exchange trips of Vermont's Rev. A. Ritchie Low (TIME, Aug. 28, 1944), suggested that New Hampshire try it. Included in the gang: Mr. Young's son Ernest, 13, daughter Beatrice, 10. Said Clergyman Young: "The only sensational thing about the trip was that there was absolutely no reaction of white children to colored. . . . They had a healthy, natural attitude toward one another...
...Cohesive Emotion. Intellectual Gangster Gilbert Nodiard believes that a well-run gang should have neither program nor ideas. But he is convinced that it must have some kind of "warm and moist emotion of complete complicity" to hold it together. The new German group, the Nazis, he reflects enviously, are bound by the moist emotion of homosexuality-which would never work in France, because French homosexuals are "not a very virile type...
Gangster Nodiard finds the answer to his dreams at a party of young Mayfair married couples. These British bright-young-things meet weekly for elaborate orgies of free love. After attending one of these, Nodiard scuttles back to Paris to initiate his gang. The British see their orgies as strictly nonpolitical pleasures. But to the Nodiard gang "our love meetings will be our Holy of Holies...