Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aphorism. Fraina's career sums up the failure of early U.S. Communism and its theorizers to win the practical-minded American worker. Draper's account ends in 1923, on the eve of an era when new theorizers carried U.S. Communism almost as high as the old Smolny gang had dreamed. That was the time (subject of later volumes) when U.S. intellectuals lovingly tended the shoots that had grown from the Communist roots, ready for the fatuous aphorism of Earl Browder that "Communism is the Americanism of the twentieth century...
Poser. Reporter Bulloch, 49, a wiry (5 ft. 6 in., 130 lbs.), Texas-born family man and Episcopal churchgoer, has faced hazards before. In 1947 he was threatened with death for writing a series that led to conviction of an out-of-state gang that had tried to take over Oklahoma's bootleg industry. Another Bulloch series ended with the biggest liquor and gambling raids in Oklahoma history. In 1952 Bulloch was warned again, and the Mayes County prosecutor was killed during a gambling investigation on which they had worked together. After he reported buying absentee ballots simply...
Died. George ("Bugs") Moran, 64, softspoken, hard-eyed Chicago gang leader who got rich on prohibition beer but lost out in mob warfare to Al Capone, never regained his power after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929); in Federal prison (where he was serving two concurrent five-year terms for bank robbery) at Leavenworth, Kans...
...says Dior, "I was about to begin my real existence." He worked successively for Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong as a designer, a period interrupted by a year's service in the army in the south of France, where he mostly dug ditches on a railroad track gang...
...Gang and lately a TV sportscaster, sniffed at the plush-lined genteelness of today's game. As ex-Manager Frisch sees it, baseball training camps nowadays "are no more than country clubs without dues." Other evidence of baseball's decline from its rigors of yore: "In my day there were no rides to and from the park. You walked-and if you were caught riding it cost you 25 bucks . . . When they wanted a new manager, you were told simply to 'get outa here-you're fired!' Owners are more polite nowadays; they announce...