Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Intellectual Way? Camp Director Norman V. Nelson, who described them as "intellectuals," said sadly that there was nothing he could do. Revolters gloried in their nom de guerre: the "Tobacco Road Gang." They feigned sickness, passively resisted all orders. Told to cut down a tree, a Tobacco Roader would ask, "How do I do it?" Told to take hold of the ax, he would ask, "What do I do next?" Told to swing the ax, he would swing, cut out a small chip, inquire. "Now what...
...this thing began we almost felt the way people at home felt - that we were interfering. . . . But after what we have seen of ELAS and its treatment of people who are opposed to them politically, it's different. I am a socialist myself. These people are just a gang of thugs...
Three New York detectives were watching the home of one Harry ("The Mustache") Rosen, suspected Fagin and fence for a gang of teen-age garment thieves. They spotted two youths entering and leaving, followed them to the home of Harvey Stemmer, a second racketeer. The detectives picked up the boys, grilled them at police headquarters. The youths got panicky and spilled a lurid story: they were members of the Brooklyn College basketball team, had pocketed bribes of $1,000 (to be split with three other teammates) to throw a game with the University of Akron; they had also arranged...
...London the Polish Government, recognized by the U.S. and Britain, denounced the new Warsaw Government as "a gang of little men," cried: "We hold out our hand to Russia." But Russia clearly had more faith in the Warsaw Government's President Boleslaw Bierut, who according to the Polish Telegraph Agency (the official organ of the London Poles), had been in the Soviet service for some 20 years. Under the name Bienkowski he had been head of the Polish section of the Communist International. Under the name Rutkowski he had been head of the Polish section of the GPU (secret...
...Egyptian students had killed British General Sir Lee Stack in Cairo 20 years ago had Egypt been shaken by a crime like the murder of Lord Moyne, British Resident Minister in the Middle East. This time the killers were two young Palestinian Jews, political assassins of the Implacable Stern Gang (TIME, Nov. 13). The two men kept their eyes fixed on the five black-robed, green-sashed judges...