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Word: ganged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agata had other ideas. When her father was deported for rubbing out a rival, she took charge of his gang, whose activities included bank robbery, kidnapping, blackmail, extortion. Soon she muscled in on the Rosario race track, cleaned up by fixing the races. With her head triggerman, Arturo Placeres, Agata liked to speed through the streets of Rosario in a black Packard sedan with impressive (but faked) number plates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Flower of Rosario | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...Communist Party. "A gang of second-raters who have guessed badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Wells Sees Through It | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...located a gang servicing Axis submarines in the Caribbean in 1941. Twenty collaborators were arrested. RID found a Nazi station in West Africa which the British then put out of business. In 1942 RID sent personnel and radio direction finders to Brazil. They discovered an extensive German radio network there, helped round up 200 Nazi spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: RID and the Spies | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck, Reinhold Schunzel; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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