Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the same strange habit. Somehow or other, Willie Bioff, a pimp turned labor racketeer, was always there to scoop up the bundles, split them with a fellow scofflaw, George Browne, president of the A.F. of L. Stage and Movie Operators Union. Willie and George acted for a gang of Chicago mobsters. The motion-picture industry thus parted with a million dollars...
Cried Wells: "Winston Churchill, the present would-be British Führer, is a person with a range of ideas limited to the adventure and opportunities of British political life. . . . When the British people were blistered with humiliation by the currish policy of the old Conservative gang in power, the pugnacity of Winston brought him to the fore. The country meant to fight and he delighted in fighting. For want of a better, he became the symbol of our national will for conflict, a role he has now outlived...
...twice in the Battle of Britain, once in London, where a land mine exploded only 75 feet away - again in the Good Friday raid on Coventry. At home and abroad he was 13 years on the staff of the New York Times, and perhaps you read his book on Gang Rule in New York, which the Times called "an eye-popping Only Yesterday of crime and politics in a flagrant...
Allied military and Italian police rounded up one gang. It included seven Foreign Legion deserters, one deserter from the U.S. Army, one Italian and five Spanish civilians. But still the brigandage went on, especially along the road from Rome to Naples...
Allied and Italian officials breathed more freely last week. But with plenty more deserters from the Allies' polyglot armies in Italy running around loose, they were not looking forward to a peaceful winter. Goggle-eyed Romans, reading the story of the Lane gang, wondered how much their homegrown desperadoes were learning from the American visitors...