Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good many people in Hainesville thought they knew who was in the gang that killed Nathan Hamilton's pretty wife and three other Negroes. But smart people weren't saying. The Aycock boys and Bilsy Shoup were put on trial for "intimidating a Federal witness"-they had beaten up a Negro who saw them cleaning their guns. But Bilsy and the Aycocks pleaded self-defense, and they were acquitted, as everyone had known they would...
...aging (46) tough guy James Cagney off on another gay whirl of crime. Cast as the same strutting, wisecracking thug he played so often in the '30s (now, in a fleeting nod to movie progress, labeled a paranoiac), Cagney kills six men, breaks out of a chain gang, pulls off a couple of daring heists, blackmails a bribe-taking cop (Ward Bond) and viciously swats a blonde moll (Barbara Payton) with a rolled-up towel...
...open book." ¶In McKeesport, Pa., the city council readied an ordinance requiring registration of "anyone who engages in activities destined to promote the principles of Communism." Maximum penalty for violation: a $100 fine, 30 days' jail, or both. ¶ In Houston, Texas, a marauding gang laid down a midnight rock barrage on the apartment of James J. Green, state secretary of the Communist Party, accidentally pelting the neighbors as well. Next day, Green's landlord asked him to move. ¶ In suburban Los Angeles, a World War II veteran named Frank Zaffina, 32, rounded up a posse...
...center of Ellson's novel stands Tomboy, the leader of the girl Harps. On the surface she is hard and violent, able to beat up many of the boys in the gang, slick at robbery and negotiating with fences. Actually, she is a confused and wounded child. She hates her home because her father drinks and her stepmother scolds. She resents being a girl, she mistreats the other girls when they attract the boys, she scorns love movies because "that stuff gets me sick all the time...
Tomboy's one friend is Mick, the most timid boy in the gang. When he is killed in a robbery, Tomboy is left alone in a world of fear and violence. At the novel's end, she is hopping a freight car to get away from the police...