Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voiced Mr. Riebel blamed all the troubles at Brewster on the "hellish" contract it had with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. He lashed out at the union's tough, headstrong boss, Tom De Lorenzo, impaled lesser officials as "punks and heels," denounced the local itself as that "gang of forty thieves." Carefully he explained that those opinions had grown in him only after he came to Brewster, last March. He had cozied up to the union. Said he: "I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo, with the cover tucked right up to my chin. I guess...
...nomination for Governor be held in abeyance until after the nomination of a candidate for second place on the slate. Worried by the thought that Cross might not run if his wishes were flouted, the Old Guard politicians made haste to drop Leary. Some years later the "Waterbury gang" was convicted under the Corrupt Practices Act, which proved that Cross, the "innocent" from the Yale campus, had had his political nose to windward...
That covered plenty of ground. If even approximately true, it indicated that almost everyone in Spain was in a mood to gang up on the Falange and Francisco Franco. Observers recently returned from Madrid estimated that some 85% of all Spaniards now opposed the Government...
Want a Laugh? A gang of Brooklynites make weekly book on the program, betting on their favorites to win. That disturbs the three showmen. Says Laurie: "We're worried to death some night a gunman will come into the studio and say 'Keep the fourth joke under 70. fellers, we're out for a killing...
...Arsenal doubtfully doled out 2-4 pieces of precious optical glass, told the amateurs to go ahead and try. The amateurs failed to hit the mark at their first attempts. Porter, Ingalls & Person thereupon lined up So top-notch amateurs, named them "The Gang," sent them instructions, set up a system of postcard communication, soon began to deliver roof prisms by the thousand...