Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rawboned kid was 17 and fresh off a Van Meter, Iowa farm when he gangled out to begin his major-league pitching career against the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang. First man up in the exhibition game in Cleveland was a scrappy shortstop named Leo Durocher. Robert William Andrew Feller took a couple of warmup tosses, then reared back and fired. Leo heard two strikes whistle past so fast that he could not see the ball, then dropped his bat and headed for the dugout. "Hey," the umpire called, "you've got a strike left...
...march of the Budapest women was symptomatic of Hungary, where revolutionary fires were flickering again among the tortured and exhausted people. Tense and jumpy, they were obviously near the end of their endurance. Yet so was Premier Janos Kadar and his little gang of Soviet stooges. Seven weeks after the revolution broke out, there was still no effective government in Hungary, and throughout the country, especially outside Budapest, the revolution-born workers' councils were reaching out more and more for the local government functions that the Kadar regime was unable to perform...
...test proved just as accurate with a "natural" group as with artificial ones. Arnold Abelow '56 last year gave the test to a street-corner gang in Boston whose acquaintance he had made the previous summer...
Shark No. 1 is Mr. MacHeath, legendary killer and gang leader, once popularly known as "The Knife." At novel's start, Mac still has his gang, though none but his intimate henchmen know it, and while he carries a swordstick cane, he is prudent enough never to use it. Mac is a progressive crook who has come to see not the error of his ways but his means: "What is a picklock compared to a debenture share? What is the burgling of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? What is the murder of a man compared...
Crocodile Tears. In his drive toward legalized larceny, Mac founds a chain of B. (for Bargain) Shops that sell cut-rate goods to the poor. To supply them, he turns his gang into a kind of quartermaster looting corps which burgles other shops by night. In plots and counterplots of Chaplinesque strategy and Napoleonic execution, Mac reduces his competitors to satraps in his own trade empire and is elected a bank director into the bargain...