Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yelling. Tommy and the three girls got into the car and drove off as the cops began shooting. But the policemen caught Larry Collins, the 14-year-old recruit. He talked. A little later the police converged on Peggy Byrns's house, found the rest of the gang. All five were charged with robbery, the original trio with murder. None showed any remorse...
...kind-hearted gangster who can't kill his enemies but rather keeps them locked up in his cellar, Douglas plays the lead in a plot that gently parodies the gang warfare movies. Left alone, the parody would have made an exceptionally good scenario. The sex angle, however, in the form of Jane Peters, a country girl who comes to work for Douglas, imposes itself early in the plot and proceeds slowly but firmly to obscure the climax of the parody. Although Jane Peters has one moment of glory in a night club torch song, she is terribly miscast...
Last Friday night a slow, chilly drizzle was falling on South Amboy, but it was shopping night and many housewives were downtown. Over on the river front, a gang of longshoremen worked late. From twelve railroad cars they were unloading a deadly cargo: anti-tank and anti-personnel mines for Pakistan's army, 2,000 cases of dynamite for blasting in Afghanistan. It was a tough but familiar job to the dockers. From the cars they moved the cases across the dock to four lighters, stowed them in neat, harmless-looking piles. When the job was done, the cargo...
...them hove to about 10 at night with a larger craft alongside. Then a man's body, bound and strapped to a 98-lb. chunk of iron, washed ashore in the Trinidad Yacht Club's bay. The victim was identified as Philbert Peyson, member of an organized gang of burglars, holdup men-and possibly pirates. There was reason to believe that he was under suspicion by his fellow gangsters as an informer...
...leader of the gang to which Peyson belonged, the rumor went, was burly, 180-lb. Boysie Singh, alias Julie Mama. Like Blackbeard, who braided ribbons into his beard and went into action with smoldering fuses behind his ears, Singh knows the value of a proper appearance. During the war, when he owned a string of nightclubs, he wore a ten-gallon hat, a sharply draped zoot suit, and numerous rings. More recently he has assumed the role of owner of a modest fishing fleet and prefers a fisherman's sweater and khaki trousers...