Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means of reducing tension between the law and juvenile criminals in New York City, I suggest that President Eisenhower invite some of the gang leaders to tour the country. Let's show them the corn belt, Levittown, Pa., and Congress in session. Let's show them that this country is too strong and determined to tolerate lawlessness. After all, we do keep bothering Comrade Khrushchev with facts when his mind is already made...
Nervous Collapse. In Christchurch, New Zealand, a river footbridge maintained by two separate municipal authorities was marked on a Monday for demolition, renovated on Tuesday by a repair gang, demolished as scheduled on Wednesday, visited on Thursday by another gang sent to paint...
Outside a slum-neighborhood high school in The Bronx, a cluster of Puerto Rican teenagers, members of the Royal Knights street gang, waited for their victim. When school let out. the hoodlums swarmed around John Guzman, member of the enemy Valiant Crowns gang, and started shoving and punching him. Guzman fled back toward the door of the school building. Royal Knight Edward Peres, 16, drew out a shortened. .22-cal. rifle and shot him in the chest...
Miguel Antonio Enrique Francisco Estrada (John Saxon), a first-generation Puerto Rican-New Yorker, is just out of stir and determined to go straight; he is a solid, workmanlike thug, though, and the old gang wants him back. They tempt him with a sex moll (Linda Cristal), "just up from Puerto Rico and full of sugar cane." Will he have one lump or two? He hesitates-then takes the whole bowl...
Soon Miguel is back flicking his switch blade. The way to rise above "little Spain" is crime, after all. He robs and murders, takes over as boss of the gang, and cooks up enough violent trouble to satisfy a theater full of Egyptian Dragons...