Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea was to replace Laval by a gang of former politicians who would [privately] assure the Germans of their complete loyalty . . . appease public opinion . . . [and] provide a smoother transition should there be a successful U.S. landing. . . . Thus Pétain would no longer be regarded as the man who had wrecked the Republic; he would just have kept it in the twilight because of circumstances until he himself was ready of his own free will to restore democratic institutions...
...parents of offenders, but "in the more exclusive suburbs they are fearful of offending... " Ushers, usually kids themselves, are usually helpless. One Cleveland manager "turned the tide" by exhibiting in his lobby a ravaged seat under the slogan "Vandalism Is Treason." One Philadelphia theater was harassed by a gang of small fry "led by a six-year-old boy who crawled under seats, opened purses in the dark, and pocketed the contents." Police got their child when the six-year-old appeared at the ticket window with a $5 bill and two little girls, aged...
...easy job to understand the Harlow system, let alone teach it, But the former Freshman and Jayvee coach proceeded to teach it to two of his new but experienced helpers, who couldn't believe it when they saw it on paper, and then went ahead to make a gang of first-year men and now men feel at home in a few weeks, but that the system ordinarily takes three years to put across...
...Their team being good is just a lot of Baleyko so as soon as their one and only determined spnrt Peters out, we'll Fitggerald and his gang good...
Back to '28. The Republican swing hit hard. Frank Hague's corrupt Jersey gang took a crushing blow in the mazard; the wreckage of Tammany Hall is strewn over Manhattan. Sole potent Democratic city machine left, outside the Solid South, is Ed Kelly's Chicago juggernaut...