Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puerto Rican yearly average migration of 50,000 is a trifle. In New York City some Puerto Ricans have managed to gain for the rest an outsize reputation as gang fighters. West Side Story-style; actually, Puerto Ricans form 8% of the population, and their share of the crime rate is only slightly more than...
...juvenile delinquency: In my youth, boys were required to wear short pants. When we reached our teens, we were allowed knickers, and in mid-teens we made the manly fashion world of long pants. Who ever heard of a gang leader or murderer wearing short pants or knickers...
...barricades and fires erupted in Beirut itself. Beaten off by police at the U.S. embassy, a mob smashed another U.S. Information Agency library and -the invariable habit of Arab nationalist mobs these days -burned its books. Shirtsleeved young men with clubs ranged the streets looking for a fight. One gang of thugs incongruously cruised the avenues in a black Cadillac, stopping from time to time to order shopkeepers to close...
...street-shadows assault was even more brutal because it was luck-of-the-draw. As police put the thing together, the gang decided to roll a passer-by for money. In Ho Oh, in shirtsleeves, had slipped out of his uncle's apartment close by the Penn campus to mail a letter a block away, was attacked as he was doubling back. Two boys shackled the Korean's arms, others knocked off his glasses, hammered him to the ground, dragged his body behind a parked automobile and frisked pockets and socks for money that wasn't there...
...Hill. At their final Metropolitan appearance before leaving for this week's engagement in Montreal, they surprised and delighted their audience with a spirited rendition of the Virginia reel to the tune of Turkey in the Straw, then "la-la-laed" through a chorus of Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and bade farewell with shouts of the word that echoed Manhattan's verdict...