Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automobile bearing five Fascist bullyboys and a kidnapped man raced out of Rome. The gang leader was vicious, U.S.-born Amerigo Dumini, henchman of Benito Mussolini. The victim was eloquent, anti-Fascist Giacomo Matteoti, leader of Italy's liberal and left-wing parties. His body, burned and headless, was eventually found in a ditch near Rome. His assassins were convicted but were soon freed...
What's Cooking at Oudjda? It was as American as corn. Captain Andre Baruch, announcer (once of NBC and CBS), opened with: "Well, let's see what's cooking at Oudjda." Oudjda (pronounced ooj-dah'), which is in Morocco, came in: "Greetings, gang! This is Sergeant Dick Weston, the old Musical Message Sender in Oudjda, getting ready to read those requests and deliver with the music." A pair of privates wanted a Bea Wain recording of God Bless the Child for some of their buddies "now in parts unknown." They got it. A sergeant requested Tommy...
...organization grew, held regional meetings. Fortnight ago, in Manhattan, Watson's R.P.P.A. warned the G.O.P. that isolationism means defeat in 1944. Said Member Mayo A. Shattuck, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association: it would be a calamity if the election of a Republican ticket should mean "another gang of inward-turning, narrow-minded stuffed shirts...
...same press conference the President served notice that all the machinery to punish Axis leaders was not simply machinery. He handed reporters a statement: "There are now rumors that Mussolini and members of his Fascist gang may attempt to take refuge in neutral territory. One day Hitler and his gang and Tojo and his gang will be trying to escape from their countries. I find it difficult to believe that any neutral country would give asylum to or extend protection to any of them. I can only say that the Government of the United States would regard the action...
...number of gang murders solved is negligible...