Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aged, quiet fanatic Mitsuru Toyama, the gang boss who appears to be finally responsible for most of Japan's political assassinations for decades...
...fanatical (they're all lovable) manager, Dave Place, genial custodian of the managerial duties of the football field, succeeds in quite another way. Place, along with Dave Arnold under the co-managerial set-up the H.A.A. was forced to adopt because of the war, had charge of the largest gang of neophyte ball-gatherers and towel-holders of all sports. In football managing, one's attitre is strictly de rigeur...
...recent years was the faking of heart disease to hornswoggle insurance companies. The story of this fraud was definitively told last week in the Annals of Internal Medicine by Dr. O. F. Hedley of the U.S. Public Health Service. The swindle reached its climax in 1937, involved a gang of some 240 people (including at least 25 doctors). Hundreds of thousands of dollars in disability claims were paid out, by more than 40 insurance companies...
...around Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek are a "gang," in the same sense that the New Deal or the Ohio Republican machine or the Cliveden set have been gangs. These are not sharp, rugged characters; these are reflections of the Generalissimo's many faces. But they are tough babies...
...small boy he adored "an uncouth youth" named Hoggie Unglebower, a juvenile gang leader in West Baltimore. Hoggie was no Lothario, "he was actually almost a Trappist in his glandular life," but he was a master at killing rats and murdering cats. Hoggie fell from his pedestal the awful day his glands began to function, and Mencken transferred his loyalty to an instructive Shetland pony called Frank...