Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital is known to its criminals−reciprocate by settling their private differences in an equally quiet way, with razor blades half-buried in potatoes or the point of a razor-sharp shiv. Last week London's sensational penny press was black with scare headlines suggesting that gang warfare of a cruder type had come to The Smoke. Four men had pulled up in a car before a dingy boarding house in Maida Vale, crossed the sidewalk in broad daylight, entered the house and pumped lead into a sleazy race-track gambler. "Police believe," reported the conservative Daily Telegraph...
...reconstruction of the moment in which all power was transferred to Stalin." In Nenni's eyes, K is obviously a crude apparatchick incapable of making a proper "Marxist analysis." Asking how and why Stalin grabbed his despotic power, Nenni dismisses Khrushchev's explanation that Khrushchev and his gang "saw these problems in a different way at different times." Says Nenni: "This answer may be valid in a strictly personal sense. It is not valid for the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. It is not valid for the Politburo . . . They had been placed in posts of responsibility precisely...
...license after several audiences got too rowdy during a musical stage show. In Washington the police chief recommended banning such shows from the National Guard Armory after brawls in which several people were injured. In Minneapolis a theater manager withdrew a film featuring the music after a gang of youngsters left the theater, snake-danced around town and smashed windows. In Birmingham champions of white supremacy decried it as part of a Negro plot against the whites. At a wild concert in Atlanta's baseball park one night, fists and beer bottles were thrown, four youngsters were arrested...
Committee, Council of Nationalities (upper house). Although he published a eulogy on Stalin's economic theories a few months before Stalin's death, he apparently had no trouble making the transition to the new gang. He attacked the consumer-goods program and "vulgarizers of Marxism" in Pravda (Jan. 24, 1955) two weeks before demotion of Malenkov as Premier...
...Mountains, his Thoreau-like reflections on mountain climbing in the Pacific Northwest, scaled 1950'S bestseller lists. The previous year, a hike up the peaks of Azerbaijan near the Russo-Iranian border brought a salvo of charges from the Soviet press that he was leading "a gang of spies." Uphill and down in seven years, the journeying justice has covered tens of thousands of miles, toured 20 lands and written five books about his travels. Folksy, candid, and inclined to ramble in peculiarly unlawyerlike fashion, Author Douglas has a keen eye for homely detail and an easy gift...