Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were some who talked like Corn &Hog Raiser Carroll Brown of Oskaloosa, Iowa. "When the farmer asks too much," he reasoned, "the rest of the guys may gang up on us some of these days and we'll get nothing." There were those who felt like C. B. Skipper of Georgia: "The Brannan Plan? I'm against it. I don't like to feel that anybody is giving me anything. The way things work now, I don't feel like anybody is giving me a handout." And there were, above all, farmers who spoke...
Most Japanese, shocked by Communist violence, thought the general's action overdue. "Well, MacArthur lost his temper at last," said a maritime union leader. "I would have lost my temper, too, at that Red gang." Occupation officials were pleased that MacArthur had neutralized Communist leadership without driving the party underground by banning it completely. It was fitting, they felt, that Japan's top Communists had been given the same purge treatment applied earlier to the nation's World War II militarists. "We've clipped their fangs scientifically," said one U.S. officer...
...police put Dried Meat down as a petty racketeer and gang boss. They suspected that he protected the bicheiros, who run an illegal numbers game (TIME, June 12). Then one day a rival racketeer, Baiano by name, was cut down by gunfire. The police blamed Dried Meat, chased him for two months through the favelas. Finally the fugitive gave himself up, blithely explained: "Running up & down the hills is for goats, not people...
...judge ruled that it was impossible, in a gang war, to determine whose bullet killed whom. So Dried Meat beat the murder rap, but he got six months in jail for illegal possession of arms. He served three months, then escaped through a sewer. While the press played him up as "Inimigo Público Número Um," the police unleashed Rio's most spectacular manhunt...
...children grow up to be bandits, playing on the streets. They cannot be scolded or punished." Like other slum children, Puerto Rican boys get into trouble. They fight each other, run away from home, cut school; sometimes there are knifings and rapes. But there are seldom robberies or gang assaults. And once they learn English, teachers report, Puerto Rican children are responsive and quick to learn...