Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most pupils need at least a year's brain washing. Once enrolled, there is no getting out. If the student is a stubborn case, there is a process called indoctrination through labor, which means he is put to work in a gang, on repairing Peking's city walls or digging sewers. Food is rationed at 20 ounces of kaoliang (millet) and one ounce of peanut oil a day, topped with occasional boiled potatoes and cabbage and about two ounces of meat a week. Students follow a 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. routine, broken only by two half...
...Blanket of Blue." "At Michigan . . . fair play and sportsmanship are fine, but to win is of utmost importance . . . Michigan's maize and blue players are not encouraged to 'gang tackle'; they are simply ordered to cover the opposing ballcarrier with a 'blanket of blue.' " The slogan of the coaches, says Jackson, is still: "When Michigan loses, someone...
...Bennett got the money back by torturing the kidnaper. The kidnaper went to Bennett's home, shot him in the side and fled. Bennett asked the police not to prosecute. But, he adds offhandedly: "The gunman was later shot and killed on a Detroit street-in some gang feud, I suppose...
Stan, a man of action, hopped into a plane, flew down to Fairbanks, and went over to see his friends in the Estelle Machine Shop. There he talked and drew diagrams. That night, the Estelle gang worked until 4 in the morning, cutting and welding a nine-foot, piece of six-inch oil-well casing into a North Pole. As a final touch, a welder took his torch and wrote on the steel: "North Pole by Stan." Next day, Stan and his friends lugged the 300-pound pole over to a sign company, got it enameled with gleaming...
When Crane served as alderman in 1939, he faced an inefficient self-seeking government which operated under the Plan B system of a weak 15-man council and a strong mayor. During this time, popular indignation against the city hall gang swelled and when the mayor went to jail, voters demanded reform. The result was a Cambridge Civic Association which instituted extensive municipal changes, including a new system of administration for Massachusetts--Plan E, a weak 9-man council, mayor, and city manager. The Cambridge Civic Association refused to back any of the old Council members, except Crane. "I guess...